Word: lindberghism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other words, Mr. Lindbergh, said Mr. Collins, "he trusted more in the Lord than he did in your flying...
...House Appropriation sub-committee dealing with military affairs last week had Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh interrupt his study of U. S. air facilities (TIME, May 8) to tell (in secret session) what he knew about aerial Europe. Witness Lindbergh, in a dark suit, dark tie, turned out to be a nice fellow who had flown German planes, knew they were fast but had not been allowed to use airspeed indicators. The German planes he saw were not so elaborately made as U. S. craft, could not haul bombs across the Atlantic. He told so little (scarelines in newspapers notwithstanding) that...
...Ross Collins seized the occasion to recall that once when he needed a Biblical quotation for a speech, he borrowed a Bible from the late devout old Congressman Ackerman of New Jersey. On the flyleaf was written: "I had this Bible in my pocket when I went up with Lindbergh...
From the sprawling Consolidated Aircraft Corp. factory on Lindbergh Field a huge flying boat waddled down to land-locked San Diego Bay one day last week. In the bright California sun her slim wing looked absurdly frail, her huge hull with its upswept stern grotesquely fat. Nevertheless, her little band of professional observers knew they were watching a plane designed to be the last aerodynamic word...
Visitors to the New York World's Fair last week: Leland Whitman Cutler, president of San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair (Said he: "You have me, gentlemen."); Alexis Carrel (to inspect the Carrel-Lindbergh mechanical heart in the Medicine and Public Health Building). Dedicating their nations' pavilions were Norway's Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha; Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid; Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte; Finland's Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar J. Procope; Rumania's Minister to the U. S. Radu Irimescu...