Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mexico City last week gave Colonel Fulgencio Batista the largest, noisiest and most colorful reception that has been given any foreign visitor since Lindbergh. Cuba's barrel-chested little "strong man" had climbed up to the city's mile-high plateau in a special train provided by the President for a ten day visit during which he will exchange neighborhood gossip with Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, talk shop with Mexico's military chiefs. Conscious that the eyes of Washington were upon him to be sure he did not show too much interest in radical Mexico...
...perfect flowering of the giddy '20s, he arrived from Nevada with a small fortune from promoting mining stocks, hired a press agent and proceeded to splurge. He gave banquets for bigwigs, planned a $50,000,000 corporation with Charles Lindbergh as president to control the nation's airways,* had a nasty squabble with Claude Neon (lights) over patents, ended a spectacular sally into prizefight promotion by himself trying to knock out Gene Tunney. He also turned a pretty penny floating and promoting mine stocks, climax of which was the forming in 1928 of an investment trust, Metal & Mining...
...Colonel Lindbergh denied any connection with the scheme...
...because "their principal character, a smart-guy Jew, is enough to rouse anti-Semitic sentiments in a rabbi"-TIME, Dec. 26) ; the withdrawal of Richard Simon's Miniature Photography (because "it commends some German-built cameras"-TIME, Dec. 26) ; and the boycott of the Anne Morrow Lindbergh book, Listen! the Wind! by the New Hyde Park library club (because of Colonel Lindbergh's acceptance of a Nazi decoration-TIME, Jan. 16) is just as bad as burning books in a public square. The difference is in method only. The reasons and results are the same...
...first salvations of a box office; that mother love and dying for one's country are not only the stuff of great art but also the surefire cliches of popular entertainment; that a cavalcade of the past-Bryan and T. R., the Wright Brothers and Lindbergh, hobble skirts and high-buttoned shoes-is a perfect ace-in-the-hole...