Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WILLIAM CORBETT'S LETTER [March 12] IF LINDBERGH IS NOT AN OUTSTANDING FLYER THE WRIGHT BROTHERS WERE WRONG AND CORBETT'S SECOND AND PARTICULARLY THIRD PARAGRAPHS FAIRLY REEK WITH GOOD TASTE. AMONG MY FRIENDS ALL HAVE A PASSING INTEREST AND LITTLE ADMIRATION FOR OUR PRESIDENT BUT THEY ARE ALL ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT COLONEL LINDBERGH. PERSONALITIES ARE STILL ODIOUS...
...CORBETT'S LETTER IN THE MARCH 12 ISSUE OF TIME. AS ONE OF THE "ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY BRING UP THEIR OWN CHILDREN" MAY I STATE EMPHATICALLY THAT TO ME ANNE LINDBERGH IS THE EXEMPLIFICATION OF A REAL HELPMATE. SHE STICKS TIGHT TO HER HUSBAND AND SHARES HIS HAZARDS AND FURTHERMORE IS A REAL MENTAL COMRADE. THEY ARE ONE IN SPIRIT AND THAT IS WHAT A REAL MARRIAGE SHOULD BE. A WIFE'S MAIN INTEREST SHOULD BE HER HUSBAND. CHILDREN-ARE BUT A BY-PRODUCT THOUGH AN IMPORTANT BY-PRODl'CT OF MATRIMONY...
...more comments on Reader Corbett's estimate of Col. Lindbergh, see TIME Letters Supplement No. 5, available next week on request. Hereafter requests for the Letters Supplement, like all other correspondence regarding subscriptions, should be addressed to the Circulation Manager, 350 East 22nd St., Chicago. 111. Requests will be filled as received, beginning with the first available issue. Nos. 1, 2 & 3 have been exhausted. Editorial correspondence should be addressed to 135 East 42nd St., New York City...
...Nevertheless, with the weather generally clear, mail flights were resumed on schedule and the first day passed without mishap. Meanwhile even with the Army grounded all week, the Administration's position on the airmail controversy continued to be anything but comfortable. The cavalier treatment accorded Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh by the White House had done President Roosevelt no popular good. Millions of citizens insisted on viewing the differences between these national heroes as something of a personal encounter. By last week the situation plainly called; for diplomacy. As a peace offering Secretary of War Dern asked Col. Lindbergh...
...would have nothing to do with the Army's airmail operations, Hero Lindbergh was quite willing to tell Congress what he thought about the contract cancellations and pending legislation to restore the mail job to private companies. The morning he was to appear before the Senate Post Office Committee the ornate caucus room in the Senate Office Building was packed and running over with a crowd that left no one in doubt as to his popularity. Senatorial secretaries deserted their desks, streaked through the hallways, tried to elbow their way inside. Lights glared while newsreel cameras waited. Senators basked...