Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having been convulsed by the flight of Hero Charles Augustus Lindbergh " family from the Herods of U. S. lawlessness and yellow journalism, U. S. editors, who spent last fortnight proclaiming their country's inferiority to Great Britain in manners and morals (TIME. Jan. 6), maintained almost unanimous silence last week as they watched the Lindberghs run to ground like rabbits by the British Press. At Liverpool waited some 100 British newshawks and a score from the continent, ready with tugs, speedboats, airplanes and racing automobiles to circumvent any Lindbergh attempt to escape from their questions and cameras. Held back...
...American Importer were returned with the notation "Addressee not aboard," the Times' story remained the scripture on which the week's exegesis was built. It was written by bespectacled Lauren D. ("Deac") Lyman, who as the Times' aviation editor befriended obscure young Aviator Lindbergh before his flight to Paris in 1927. Throughout the week Reporter Lyman stoutly refused to reveal the source of his scoop. But Colonel Lindbergh's hatred of certain sensational newspapers, and his corresponding affection for the courteous Times, have long been well-known. Therefore Newshawk Lyman's statements could reasonably...
...York Harbor toward Europe aboard the S. S. American Importer. On that slender foundation of fact the U. S. Press last week reared as enormous a fabric of conjecture, rumor, implication and denunciation as has been built in nearly two thousand years on the 67-word story of the Flight into Egypt.* News of the Lindbergh flight broke in the final Monday edition of the New York Times, on the streets at 4 a. m. The New York American, morning Hearstpaper, cribbed the Times' copyright story, slapped it on the front page of an extra edition. The rest...
...nursery school a large automobile sped up, forced the Lindbergh car to the curb. Strange men leaped out, thrust cameras at the child (see cut), sped away. Since then Jon had not been to school. "National Disgrace- First reaction of U. S. editors to news of the Lindbergh flight was to beat their breasts in shame, to deplore U. S. lawlessness for driving the Nation's No. i hero into foreign exile. "It is a national disgrace . . ." moaned the San Francisco Chronicle. "No battle lost could bring the American People so great a humiliation," gloomed the Chicago Tribune. "Nations...
...Hearst photographers, printed in Hearst's New York American and tabloid New York Mirror, distributed by Hearst's International News Photos. But for four days not one editor dared to mention that prime fact. Meantime, asked by Reuters News Agency for his opinion of the Lindbergh flight, Publisher Hearst used it for attacks on the New Deal and aliens. Wrote he in part: "It would certainly seem that a government which is so liberal, not to say wasteful, in spending the people's money, might use some of the money for the useful and needful purpose...