Word: lindberghism
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...German people could not know that Charles Augustus Lindbergh was coming to them with high seriousness to deliver a great message last week. In fact they could not know when he was coming, if at all. The Colonel had made his usual request for privacy and for the first time since LINDBERGH became a magic name this request had been made to someone who could and would grant it, HITLER. At a word from Der Führer it became impossible for any German paper to mention that a borrowed British Gipsy-Moth had taken off from Penshurst, Kent...
Queen Mary has not yet dined with the King and Mrs. Simpson, but the Prime Minister and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and Colonel and Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh have. In those circumstances, socialite Britons assumed and freely said last week in Mayfair that, as in the case of Ethiopia, British public opinion is now in course of a great change, and soon the comings and goings of Mrs. Simpson will be a popular topic in the popular press...
...rodeos, ball games, carnivals, races, funerals. He scorned loudspeakers, earned $25 for ordinary and $100 for championship fights, invented a system of hand-wavings to show a fighter's exact weight, made a prizefight crowd of 40,000 stand in silence while he improvised a prayer the night Lindbergh was flying toward Paris. In 1933, when he awoke one night to find himself alone and paralyzed as a result of his first stroke of apoplexy, Announcer Humphreys achieved his masterpiece. He announced his own predicament. After he had shouted for five hours, aid came from his neighbors...
...deny executive clemency to Arthur Gooch, Oklahoma convict who, in escaping from prison, kidnapped a policeman. Convict Gooch thereby became the first man to hang for kidnapping under the Lindbergh law. Said the President...
Deposited to the account of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh in Manhattan were $14,665 in gold notes-residue of the $50,000 ransom he paid to Bruno Richard Hauptmann...