Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, eccentric Bronx schoolmaster and ransom-passer in the Lindbergh case, wrote a letter to the New York Times nominating a friend for New York State Boxing Commissioner: "He knows every angle of the game. . . . My opinion is based upon a long and intimate acquaintance. . . . The man to whom I refer is Mr. John Harrison Dempsey, called by the sporting fraternity by the familiar name of Jack Dempsey." Added the Times's editor: "All right, Doctor, but the name is William Harrison Dempsey." Restaurateur Dempsey was on his way to Miami, to lend his name...
...first time since he established residence in England, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh piloted an airplane of his own, a new black & orange 200-h.p. touring monoplane which he tested at Reading Airdrome. Built secretly to specifications prepared by himself and Designer Frederick George Miles, the ship is equipped for blind flying, fitted with a transparent, sliding roof, tandem seats convertible into bunks...
...Tamblyn (Colgate 1903) was membership extension director of the Atlantic Division of the Red Cross when he met John Crosby Brown (Yale 1915), scion of the banking Brown brothers, son of Union Theological Seminary's onetime Professor William Adams Brown who married Anne Spencer Morrow to Charles Augustus Lindbergh. After conducting money drives for the Red Cross in 1920, they formed Tamblyn & Brown, a firm which prosperously endured until two years ago when the partners quarreled. Mr. Brown now runs Tamblyn & Brown and Mr. Tamblyn has launched Tamblyn & Tamblyn with his son, a recent Colgate graduate. The original firm...
...with Miss "Buttercup" Kennedy. It was also noticed that Mrs. Simpson, according to the evidence her lawyers introduced, suspected her husband of infidelity and was having Mr. Simpson followed by detectives at the time when Mr. & Mrs. Simpson dined with Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, as the guests of King Edward at St. James's Palace (TIME, June 8). If there had not long ago been established in Buckingham Palace, both above stairs and below, competent U. S. news contacts, it would not have become known this week that 36 hours after Mrs. Simpson...
...governmental and scientific documents with foreign countries. The National Museum comprises two buildings close by the Institution. Here many of Roosevelt I's African hunting trophies are realistically mounted. The Smithsonian building itself is the nation's inexhaustibly interesting attic, whose cherished and heterogeneous knick-knacks include Lindbergh's transatlantic plane and General Custer's sword and scabbard...