Word: lindbergh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drama, lit into the namby-pamby traditions of radio educators. Speaking before 600 highly placed radiomen in the gilt ballroom of Columbus' Deshler-Walleck Hotel Corwin declared that the convention was clogged with "platitudinous generalizations" and "hush-hush talk." Corwin asked, "Why have there not been names named? . . . Lindbergh, Coughlin, Patterson, McCormick, Hearst? ... I trust that no commercial sponsor will be so venal as to . . . prohibit any attack on the Fascist within . . . because the Christian Fronter also buys soap." Next he smacked the lordly commentators. "Four destroyers went down the ways a couple of days ago. They weren...
...intrepidity in aerial combat" the President of the U.S. gave him his country's highest military decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor; the Secretary of the Navy promoted him from lieutenant to lieutenant commander; his home town (St. Louis) gave him the wildest public ovation since Hero Lindbergh's return there 15 years ago. Thus 28-year-old Naval Aviator Edward H. O'Hare, who shot down five Jap bombers in the Pacific, damaged a sixth, in one flight from a U.S. aircraft carrier, had the week of his life...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh turned up at his new job at Ford's Willow Run plant, wearing "Victory model" trousers (sans cuffs), posed with his boss for photographers...
After Pearl Harbor Charles Lindbergh had offered his services to the Government, to airplane builders. Nothing came of it. In January Secretary of War Stimson said Lindbergh was being considered for a technical job. But nothing came of that either...
Last week Henry Ford invited the wrench man to Detroit, lunched with him, pointed proudly at Willow Run, offered the onetime hero a "supervisory" job. Lindbergh said he must ask the War Department. In Washington Secretary Stimson nodded. Lindbergh begins work this week...