Word: diego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swinging lazily through the Western air, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh made a landing at San Diego. Here he was informed of the most extraordinary thing which has happened to him since he landed in Paris. An Amarillo, Tex., newspaper editor, one Gene Howe, son of famed Atchison (Kan.) Daily Globe's Ed Howe, had called Charles A. Lindbergh "swell-headed." Lindbergh said: ". . . if I have the swelled-head my hatter has not noticed...
...inform Mr. Bassett that I have just completed a 2,285 rnile hop from San Diego to Minneapolis clad in my seal and ermine coat, satin dress, white hat and corsage of roses, for I made the trip in a Ryan monoplane-brougham type, sistership to the one Lindbergh now owns...
More than 150 lives were saved by parachutes last year, and so a week ago Sergeant Archie Atherton, crack parachutist of the U. S. Marine Corps, opened a school for parachuting in San Diego, Calif. Sergeant Atherton is known as the originator of "spot landing" and averaged a drop a day for a year...
...Clifton Copley, who used to represent the eleventh district, Ill., in the U. S. House, and whose success with public utilities and small-town newspapers in Illinois (Springfield State Journal, Elgin Courier, Joliet Herald News, etc.) lately encouraged him to buy 19 small newspapers in California (the San Diego Union, Pasadena Evening Post, Hollywood News, Hermosa Daily Breeze, Venice Evening Vanguard, etc.), was disturbed last week, while traveling in Europe, by a cablegram from home. In the U. S. Senate, Nebraska's caustic Norris had hinted that Publisher-Magnate Copley was buying up newspapers solely to defeat legislation against...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh is to have a new plane, built like the Spirit of St. Louis by the same painstaking builder, B. F. Mahoney, at the same place, San Diego, Calif. And, likewise, Hero Lindbergh is to be her only pilot...