Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Named. Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.; 16 days after his birth (June 22), the third consecutive Lindbergh to bear the name...
Amiable and ardent is the France-America Society (William D. Guthrie of Manhattan, president). Its ceremonies usually involve roseate references to Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, Pershing, Herrick, Lindbergh. When the society was founded in 1911 it took over and renovated a famed old Paris mansion, proceeding on the assumption that the government would help pay the costs. Last week the French Senate was surprised and pained at being reminded of this assumption by a bill to pay a 200,000-franc architect...
...night of the voting, Son-in-law Charles Augustus Lindbergh sat in the Morrow home surrounded by newsgatherers who showed scant interest in him. He clutched a private-wire telephone, received election returns. When these indicated the Ambassador's record-breaking plurality of more than 300,000 votes, Mr. Morrow closed a volume of Herodotus he had been reading in his library, made no quotable comment, went to bed.* Somewhere in the ballot-deluge which had nominated him was the first vote of Dwight Whitney Morrow Jr., just 21, studious Amherst son of a scholarly Amherst father...
Born. To Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh, at about 3 p. m. on Mrs. Lindbergh's 24th birthday (June 22); at the home of the mother's parents in Englewood, N. J.; a son. Weight: 7 lb., 10 oz. First name: Charles. Middle name undecided, but wagered to be 1) Augustus, 2) Morrow, or 3) Dwight. Residents of Englewood flocked to the thickly-wooded Morrow estate, peered through the gates; a paid program from National Broadcasting Co.'s Manhattan studio was dropped abruptly, the birth announced...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew non-stop from Washington, D. C. to Mexico City in his Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, in 27 hr. He lost hours searching for the course from Tampico to Valbuena Field. †August 1920. Maj. Theodore McAuley, San Diego-Jacksonville, 19 hr. 10 min. September 1922, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle, Jacksonville-San Diego...