Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Borah stood for the Isolationist "peace bloc" who see only one means to stay out -retention of the embargo. Next night the nation listened to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh (see p. 14) who represented nobody, yet everybody, in a simple monosyllabic address whose refrain was only: "Stay...
...pure & simple Lindbergh when, with his wife and Mr. & Mrs. Lewis, he repaired to the Carlton Hotel suite in Washington where MBS, NBC and CBS had set up their microphones. He greeted all the announcers and technicians, with his mechanic's eye pried into the electrical arrangements, wanted particularly to know whether telephones would be ringing during the broadcast...
...Charles Lindbergh last spoke on the radio eight years ago, in Tokyo. Not even the chance to plead for the return of his kidnapped son in 1932 had brought him to a microphone since. The sudden break in his silence was a phenomenon of World War II (which he painstakingly refused to call a World War), an evidence of its great impact upon the U. S. It was also the end of his protective pretense that Charles Lindbergh is just a private citizen. By his act last week Hero Lindbergh deliberately undertook a spokesman's, if not a leader...
...idea was planted in his head last month by bumptious, able MBS Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., who got Washington press galleries opened to radio reporters (TIME, May 8). At a small dinner party in Washington, Fulton Lewis heard Colonel Lindbergh on war in the world, peace in the U. S., and suggested that he broadcast his thoughts. On a Sunday afternoon three weeks later, Charles Lindbergh urgently telephoned Commentator Lewis, asked whether the offer of radio time was still good. It was, said Mr. Lewis. Hero Lindbergh then drafted a speech. His wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer of repute (Listen...
...aroused the interest of Silk Dealer George Wake in making better silk chutes. They incorporated just in time to get a 500-chute order from the U. S. Army, soon found a market when pilots began leaping from ailing planes into the Caterpillar Club (Star Member Charles A. Lindbergh; four emergency jumps...