Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department had been panicky lest anti-Fascist demonstrations mar Signer Grandi's reception. A plan to have him flown from New York harbor by Pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh was canceled because of bad weather. In clothes grey as the encircling fog. Minister Grandi & party were taken off the S. S. Conte Grande at Quarantine in a tug, hustled over to a Pennsylvania R. R. pier in Jersey City to a special train. Everywhere were armed guards, special agents, railroad detectives to suppress any hostility. None occurred...
...photographs of the Lindberghs and their capsized plane in the Yangtze River (TIME, Oct. 12) which appeared in the U. S. press last week were sold by Col. Lindbergh to Wide World Photos (New York Times) in this fashion: When the mishap occurred alongside the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Hermes, some 50 sailors began snapping their cameras. Aware of Colonel Lindbergh's ideas on publicity, the commander of the Hermes offered to confiscate the films. Tactfully Colonel Lindbergh declined. Instead he agreed that the pictures be sold to one of the eager news services for $4,000, the proceeds...
...Morgan & Co.; and Arthur S. Springer, his secretary, go bequests of $25,000 each. The will directs that Mrs. Morrow "provide for herself and my children," leaves specific bequests to Senator Morrow's brother, sisters, sisters-in-law and mother-in-law. For Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the late Senator set up a $1,000,000 trust fund (TIME, Oct. 7, 1929). Other children are Elisabeth (teacher), Dwight Whitney (Amherst junior) and Constance (Smith freshman...
Like 16th Century conquistadores, European and U. S. intelligentsia have spent the past two years discovering Mexico. Mexico's modern painters, Mexico's folk arts, Mexico's archeological remains have been the subject of innumerable books and pamphlets, even of flights by Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife. Latest to join the parade is Dr. Elie Faure, famed French critic, parlor anarchist, author of the most readable if not the most authoritative history of art. Recently he arrived in Los Angeles fresh from a visit to Mexico, on his way to Japan, and delivered an address to the California...
...plane touched the water the current dragged it aft. Colonel Lindbergh promptly opened his engine, causing the plane, which was still held by a cable, to shoot forward. The cable pulled the plane over on its side; the Lindberghs jumped out (Associated Press...