Word: lindberghian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interested in marine biology, did not smoke, had never been a Boy Scout. When the boys boarded the Mayor's yacht Macom for a tour of Manhattan, reporters surged around Winner Huston, confident of a "chatty" interview that would tickle their public. They were disappointed and commented on the Lindberghian attitude he maintained toward them. Asked his answer to one part of the test he calmly said, "You may not ask me that question...
...will not be a regular job. Whenever the Secretary of Commerce or his Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics may want Lindberghian advice on air regulations, airway extensions and equipment, airport construction, airway mapping, accident prevention or aeronautical research, they may call on him. When and if he works for the Government, he will draw...
...then, successful, the Better Element forgets. Last week, Seattle reached the turning point of the same sort of Better Element cycle by which New York got a Hylan after a Mitchell, Chicago a Thompson after a Dever, and by which Detroit will inevitably get a question mark after its Lindberghian granduncle, Mayor John C. Lodge...
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