Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article states that Lindbergh was the first civilian authorized to receive one. But Dr. Mary Walker, whether authorized or not for "service rendered during the War," received hers in January 1866. And as she was man enough to brave the taunts and jeers of Sherman's men by wearing pants, I judge that she earned...
...Design and many another notable sat down to dine in honor of the opening of the National Exhibition of American Art. Also present among these friends of culture was husky Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey. Up to him strolled Lou Wedemar, Universal News Serviceman who covered the Lindbergh case. Said Hearstling Wedemar to New Jersey's Governor...
...transport of enthusiasm at a civilian exploit, Congress in 1927 broke its own rules limiting the award to military men in actual conflict with an enemy and voted the Medal of Honor to Charles Augustus Lindbergh for his flight to Paris...
...Maryland the President was again opposed by Colonel Henry Breckinridge, Manhattan lawyer who lost overwhelmingly to Franklin Roosevelt in Pennsylvania fortnight ago. Chiefly noted as a onetime Assistant Secretary of War (1913-16) and as Charles A. Lindbergh's attorney, Colonel Breckinridge is a thin-lipped, sinewy, 49-year-old member of Kentucky's famed Breckinridge family. To keep fit for his legal and political jobs he flies his own airplane, keeps up the expert fencing which in 1928 got him elected captain of the U. S. Olympic fencing team. Not seriously seeking the Presidency, Colonel Breckinridge last...
...John Edgar Hoover had been in the service 21 years when, fortnight ago, for the first time he put on his old clothes (TIME, May 11). When he took them off ten days later, the Bureau had closed all the 62 kidnapping cases undertaken since the passage of the Lindbergh...