Word: lindberghism
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...late as last May, Scribner's Commentator had as its top name-writers Playwright J. P. McEvoy, Crooner Kate Smith, Comedian Fred Allen. But in August it burst forth with Charles Lindbergh on the cover, a flattering story about Lindbergh inside, pieces on the New Deal's international sympathies and "warmongers...
Since then, Scribner's Commentator has devoutly followed Lindbergh's foreign policies, denounced Franklin Roosevelt's. Of the last six issues of Scribner's Commentator, five have contained stories by or about Lindbergh. December's issue had an article by Henry Ford. Other contributors are such famed isolationists as Senators Rush Holt, Worth Clark, Burt Wheeler, General Robert E. Wood...
...mobbed for making this suggestion. . . . But I still maintain that America has no better, no more intelligent friend than Charles A. Lindbergh. ... I want to nominate him as the Man of the Year...
...Brownwood,Tex., the council changed the name of Lindbergh Avenue to Corrigan Street...
Said he: ". . . The really smart trick we pulled was that after Lindbergh made his speech we put his mother-in-law [Mrs. Dwight Morrow] on the air-and was that a face card? It was! She said, 'Telegraph the White House and your Congressmen.' . . . 15,000 telegrams came tumbling down on Washington, saying 'Give the destroyers to Great Britain.' They never knew what hit them...