Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his demure little wife began touring Nazi Germany last week by meeting onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm, now an aging fop. Later in the week they were invited to lunch by one of Germany's new rulers, Air Minister and Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who had just returned from Reichsführer Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat where he is only occasionally invited. The Air Minister introduced the airman to his wife, onetime Cinemactress Emmy Sonnemann, and to the latest of his series of lion cubs, each of which...
Emmy Göring on the other hand says she likes "fine sewing" and "a good thick Hamburg fog." After lunch the General, arm in arm with the Colonel, led him to the basement to meet the lion cub. When Lindbergh patted the cub without flinching, he was rewarded with an invitation to go hunting with Premier Göring who is also Germany's Master of the Hunt...
When at the Olympic games opening (see p. 40) Adolf Hitler and Colonel Lindbergh were seated within a few feet of one another and the Reichsführer ignored the airman, it was clear that Hitler intended to be the first Head-of-State to omit to receive Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The next day Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh flew to Denmark...
...above the average standard in the Saturday Evening Post. Excellent are the carefully dated gowns, furniture, and cliches ("You're the Berries," "Think Fast, Captain Flagg," "They Just Dropped In and Took The Place Over") ; the stock-shots of outstanding news events, including Manhattan's welcome to Lindbergh; the songs and even the mental attitudes of the periods dealt with. Carpers will find a few inaccuracies: "This is the Voice of Experience" in 1929 ("The Voice of Experience" did not become a nationwide radio feature till 1933); Warner Baxter's 1936-style shoulder pleats...
...Louis Blériot lumbered up from Les Barragues, buzzed across to Dover some 250 ft. above the water at an average speed of 45 m. p. h., won a $5,000 prize. Same year, after a serious crackup, he stopped flying, went into airplane manufacture. In 1927, when Lindbergh made the first solo flight from New York to Paris, Pioneer Blériot rushed up, kissed him on both cheeks. Said Pilot Lindbergh: "I shall always regard you as my master...