Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor LaGuardia got in behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen over the Mayor's protest, instead of Broadway-Fifth Avenue because it was easier to patrol) in a triumphal journey much less uproarious than Charles Lindbergh's ticker-tape blizzard (see p. 20). Grover Whalen, resplendent in a flowing stock, received them at his Fair, where they were tootled around in a trackless motor train. Their own Empire's exhibits, including a copy of the Magna Charta, were their chief stops, being formal reasons...
...little ones. The country's" most poisonous malefactors are sent there to prevent their infecting less dangerous inmates of other Federal prisons. Alcatraz, "The Rock," is one nightmare which the most hardened criminals, outside it as well as in, cannot laugh off. Alcatraz is a result of the Lindbergh kidnapping. It was the invention and pet project of Franklin Roosevelt's first Attorney General, rapier-nosed Homer Stillé Cummings...
...last week Francisco Sarabia was almost unheard of in the U. S., but in Mexico he is considered not only the nation's Lindbergh and Roscoe Turner but its Juan Trippe. He is president and co-founder (with his three brothers) of one of Mexico's most important native-owned airlines, the Compania Transportes Aéreos de Chiapas. Last year it carried approximately 17,000 passengers, 18,000 Ibs. of mail, 3,000,000 Ibs. of freight, made enough money to double its equipment. It now has 28 ships of a half-dozen makes, 14 pilots. Sarabia...
...Lindbergh laughed...
...last week, on the twelfth anniversary of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris, Pan American Airways (of which Lindbergh is technical adviser) inaugurated the first transatlantic mail service. In the hold of the Clipper were 112,574 pieces (1,603 Ibs.) of mail, mostly from collectors (rate: 30? a half ounce), and a box of four dozen California marigolds for Queen Mary. Alert at her crew stations, or lolling in the luxurious cabins were 16 Pan Am employes...