Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, asked leave to print in the Congressional Record the words of one of the few private citizens ever to be officially received on the House floor. Said Representative Fish: "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to place in the Record the letter written by Col. Charles Lindbergh to the President of the U. S." There was not one objection but a deafening chorus of them led by Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle of Gastonia. N. C. The Democrats of the House were bitterly determined that the nation's No. 2 hero should not be heard criticizing...
...Fish: . . . If the gentleman will permit to go into the Record the telegram written by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to the President, I shall not object...
...said wry Senator Norris of Nebraska fortnight ago, "Col. Lindbergh is earning...
What provoked that remark was Col. Lindbergh's telegram to President Roosevelt protesting the domestic airmail contract cancellations (TIME, Feb. 19). The $250,000 referred to was reputedly a gift from Transcontinental Air Transport to the flying Colonel in 1928. Col. Lindbergh was popularly supposed to have amassed a fortune from the aviation industry in return for "technical advice." Was the aviation industry now getting back its money's worth by pitting the popularity of Lindbergh against the popularity of Roosevelt...
...pound, with the pilot sitting on a parachute. Now and then, when a certain St. Louis mail pilot came roaring in with capers which today would bring instant dismissal, the Chicago field manager would shout: "Bellies to the ground! Here comes Slim!" A year later "Slim" Lindbergh, having flown solo...