Word: lindberghism
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...Infantry Academy at Toledo's Alcazar at the age of 14. In due time youngest brother Ramon Franco went into the aviation service. Shockheaded, wild-eyed Brother Ramon Franco was the first member of the family to make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop from Cadiz to Buenos Aires, later became air attache to the Spanish embassy at Washington. When the revolution broke last year, hot-headed Brother Ramon made no secret of his Leftist sentiments. Somewhere in Rightist Spain today, Brother Ramon is sitting in jail...
Died. Earl C. Thompson, 59. insurance broker, one of the nine original backers of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's 1927 non-stop night from New York to Paris; of dermatomyositis (inflammation of the muscles); in St. Louis...
...publicize the Paris International Exposition, Minister Cot last fall suddenly conceived and as suddenly announced an air race from New York to Paris on May 21, tenth anniversary of Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. Prize was a whopping $135,000 and the race was to be run no matter how bad the weather (TIME, Sept. 7). This suicidal suggestion at once drew protests from airmen all over the world, including Lindbergh, who had not been consulted. Chastened Minister Cot then extended the starting period to a month and closed the race to all but multi-motored planes with radios...
...Russia first told an incredulous world of its plan to establish a transpolar airline to the U. S., it announced that its No. 1 flyer, Sigismund Levanevsky, would make the first trip (TIME, June 14 et seq.). Instead, this bootblack's son who is often called "the Soviet Lindbergh" was left behind at the last minute and Valeri Chkalov took his place. When the second successful junket was made month later by three other Soviet airmen, Flyer Levanevsky began to be mentioned in dispatches as in jail and scheduled for execution in one of J. Stalin's current...
...structures and holder of various other city offices. The one which made his reputation was secretary of Mayor Hylan's committee to welcome home coming troops after the War. He soon became the city's official welcomer. For years no notable arrived in New York harbor-not Lindbergh, not Admiral Byrd nor Queen Marie of Roumania-without the press carrying pictures of Grover Whalen in frock coat and striped trousers, topper in hand, gardenia in buttonhole, steaming down the bay on the bridge of the municipal yacht Macom to extend the hospitality of the city...