Word: lindberghism
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Immediately on his return from the epochal flight to Paris in May 1927, a "group" of sky opportunists snapped up Charles Augustus Lindbergh, made him "technical adviser." By 1929 this group was Transcontinental Air Transport and had the world's No. 1 civil aviator fly part of its first coast-to-coast trip over the route he had charted. When its successor, Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., was formed in 1930 it kept the slogan...
...Lindbergh Line" and added for good measure, "TWA First." For eight years nearly every page of the company's publicity has prominently mentioned "The Lindbergh Line" while in most of its 44 ticket offices the helmeted head of Colonel Lindbergh looked confidently skyward...
...where he negotiated - unsuccessfully - with Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan, small fry from coast to coast. On a second trip-this time to escape the still more savage intrigues of his comrades- he hit on the idea of an "American folkic program," to be headed by Flyer Lindbergh, spread the good word about Hitler but got little money. In Detroit he married a plain, sensible librarian...
...earth to which the press will not go-and in force -to get what it wants. Significantly, it was on Chesapeake Bay ten years ago that a group of U. S. newspapermen, tossing in a small boat, made the first contact with another diffident news character, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, homeward bound on the cruiser U.S.S. Memphis after his flight to Paris. Just as in 1927, a boatload of reporters had been out all night in a motor launch named Pirate just in case the City of Norfolk suddenly dropped Mr. Justice Black before docking at Norfolk. Only result of this...
From Jan. 2 to Feb. 13, 1935, the State of New Jersey was engaged at Flemington in trying Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Concessionnaires sold to the 60,000 daily sightseers 10? replicas of the kidnap ladder, reporters adjourned to Nellie's Tap Room, after filing a million words daily, to sing a parody of the German Schnitzel-bank song about the ransom note and the baby's sleeping garment, and Edward J. Reilly took the defense with small chance of pay because "it's a criminal lawyer's dream...