Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Committee announced it would find out what, if anything, was wrong with the Air Corps' planes. While the President was ordering air mail curtailment by the Army another newsworthy event was taking place at the War Department. Into Secretary Dern's office marched Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh who, at the Secretary's invitation, had flown from New York with Mrs. Lindbergh. What the Secretary and the Colonel talked about for an hour and a half, they alone knew. Mr. Dern explained that he had sought "general advice" on aviation. Some newshawks interpreted the invitation as another...
America's great moral paragon, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, has again leaped to the front with one of those magnanimous and forthright gestures that have so endeared him to the hearts of his beloved countrymen. He has refused to take part in the army air investigation, despite the fact that he might gain much power and glory thereby. Still the simple modest lad that flew the Atlantic all by himself, he eschews the temptations of this life when to yield to them would be to sacrifice his faith. So he has--at what cost only he can know--remained true...
...protest your designation of No. 2 hero to Colonel Lindbergh...
Among ordinary people who actually bring up their own children the Lindbergh custom of going off to Asia or Europe whenever a new baby is born is not at all conducive of goodwill...
...Lindbergh's N. Y.-Paris plane was never condemned by the Department of Commerce as unsafe. It was barred from commercial use only because it held an experimental license. About one hundred sister ships (Ryan Brougham monoplanes) are still in service throughout the land...