Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground facilities, except between countries which have entered into special treaties. Although highly adaptable to international transit, aviation is proceeding along markedly nationalistic lines. For this reason the League of Nations transit organization at Geneva has asked eminent airmen for helpful suggestions. The message of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, published last week: "A uniform [world] system of markings and signals should be decided upon, and a comprehensive meteorological and radio reporting system established. Aviation must be considered from an international standpoint." Dr. Hugo Eckener and General Italo Balbo, Italian Air Minister, likewise pleaded for close international co-operation to develop...
...three years of encounters with the press, Charles Augustus Lindbergh has had ample opportunity to learn the ways of newshawks. Also in that time he has formed two categories of newspapers: "good" papers on the one hand, Hearst-papers and tabloids on the other. Last week Col. Lindbergh essayed to turn his experience to his own purposes, to reward the papers whose tactics he approved; to punish those which he felt had most energetically badgered himself & family. The prize, to be bestowed or withheld: first photographs of Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh Jr. for which photographers had been keeping incessant vigil...
Summoned by telephone to the Manhattan office of Col. Henry Breckenridge, counsel for Col. Lindbergh, were representatives of the approved list: the Sun, Post, World, Times, Herald Tribune, Telegram, Associated Press, United Press, Brooklyn Eagle, Acme News Pictures, Inc.? A "tip'' of such proportions cannot escape the grapevine telegraph for many hours. The meeting time found the invited ones augmented by newshawks from the Journal, American (Hearst- papers), Mirror, News, Graphic (tabloids...
Singly the bidden callers were ushered in to blandly smiling Col. Lindbergh, who addressed each in private about as follows...
...said he, politely, innocently. "What can I do for you this afternoon?" Vainly each man pleaded, reasoned, expostulated, protested ; begged to know why his paper was being excluded from this, the picture of pictures! Most vehement was the reporter from the Mirror, which had heralded the advance of Baby Lindbergh for some six months and had printed a large "artist's conception" of the mother & child on the birthday. To all questions Col. Lindbergh returned a smile of increasing breadth and the reply: "Sorry, I can't answer that today...