Word: lindberghism
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...potency of the charm and mind of the Madame had already made her mission a tremendous personal success. If her slight, hard-driven body could keep up with her iron will, the tour might become as dramatic a personal triumph as Hero Lindbergh's 1927 tour, Candidate Wendell Willkie's 1940 train ride...
From Henry Ford's Willow Run plant, where he has been doing engineering research, Charles Augustus Lindbergh moved on a part-time basis last week to Hartford, Conn. He wants to do his high-altitude work closer to the industrial parent of the 2,000-h.p. engines Ford is manufacturing to power bombers and fighters. As an engineer for United Aircraft Corp., Pilot Lindbergh is back at the job he likes best -improving aircraft engines. As he has done for Ford, he will continue to go above 35,000 feet to test the devices he and other technicians develop...
...done anything newsworthy enough to put his picture on TIME's cover, so somebody suggested that we stop looking for a Man of the Week and pick a Man of the Year. Choice of the Man of 1927 was easy: Hero Charles Augustus Lindbergh, then busily hopping all over North America giving people a look at the youngster who had soloed the Atlantic in only 33 hours and 30 minutes...
When the drugstores' agent suggested that the rejected pair might make a good team, they decided to try. They were an instant success with the Thrifty Stores and their public. Truculence was the keynote of their first script. They climbed all over Charles Lindbergh ("The Molting Eagle"), Senator Burton K. Wheeler ("The Voice of the Montana Sheepherder"), Senator Rush Holt ("Marco Polo in Rompers"), and America First ("America Last"). Hordes of listeners thought the team's colloquial views of the world situation made sense. Typical was an October 1940 broadcast...
...resurgent opposition extended its hand; it was up to the Democrats to clasp it. If both work together, 1942's election-which Charles A. Lindbergh and like had feared might never be held-could go down in history as one of the most beneficial...