Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator's sisters, Miss Alice Morrow and Mrs. Agnes Morrow Scandrett, were about to sail for Istanbul that afternoon on the American Export liner Exilona. They rushed to Englewood hastily. Other members of the extensive Morrow family were summoned. Mrs. Morrow herself sent a radiogram to Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh in China...
...Wonderful!" Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh is a Smith alumna. Few such have teaed with First Lady Meiling. But for Anne & Charles Lindbergh the First Lady staged a very special tea last week at which President Chiang managed to be present...
...Colonel the President offered China's brand new Aviation Medal, never before conferred. Colonel Lindbergh agreed to accept his medal publicly from President Chiang at 10 a.m. next...
Next day Colonel Lindbergh would make another flight, more daring. To gain space he would leave Mrs. Lindbergh in Nanking, would carry two doctors and medical supplies to flood-stricken areas near the Grand Canal. "Wonderful!" cried First Lady Meiling. Said President Chiang, "Colonel Lindbergh, your services are invaluable...
Violent Hopes. Swish, splash, the Lindbergh plane alighted next day on a watery waste near Hinghwa, east of the Grand Canal and 70 miles from Nanking. With famished yells, Chinese in sampans and in tubs paddled for the plane, snatched at boxes of medical supplies which the two doctors proceeded to unload. "Ah, food!" cried a snatcher. Seizing some boxes of absorbent gauze he ripped one open, tried to eat the white stringy stuff, raged to find it not food. Other Chinese snatched, bit, fell to reviling the two doctors, one a Chinese. Said Colonel Lindbergh afterward...