Word: lindberghism
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...Stories were covered by a questionnaire to editors who were asked to name the most important news break of the 50 years, barring the War and Armistice. First choice: Lindbergh's flight. Most fruitful news personality and figure: Theodore Roosevelt. Best U. S. editor-publisher: Joseph Pulitzer. Best single "news stunt": New York World's fight against the Ku Klux Klan...
Holabird & Root buildings reflect the quick brilliance of Root, the patient logic of Holabird. All Chicago knows their towering railroad-straddling Daily News Building, their Palmolive Building topped by the Lindbergh beacon, their Board of Trade Building which spans La Salle Street, their swift, swirling Chrysler Building on the Fair Grounds...
Died, Louise Dudley Breckinridge, 17, daughter of Col. Henry Breckinridge, one-time Assistant Secretary of War (1913-16), attorney for Col. Charles Lindbergh; by tripping and accidentally discharging into her heart a bullet from a .22-calibre rifle; near Bethesda...
...Pulitzers sold the New York World, Post and Gatty flew around the world, the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, Herbert Hoover was defeated, Calvin Coolidge died while the radio blackamoors recited their ponderous and diverse tale. It took a whole year for Andy to realize the iniquity of Madame Queen, who punctuated their alliance with a breach of promise suit in 1931. The luckless love affair of Amos and Ruby Taylor, begun in 1928, has not yet reached a conclusion. For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story. In all. 166 characters have...
...Langley Field, Va. from Newark one day last week flew Col. Lindbergh in the new Northrop Gamma transport mail plane which TWA's Vice President Jack Frye piloted from coast to coast three weeks ago in 11 hr., 31 min. (227 m.p.h.). Also to Langley Field went some 200 other leaders of U. S. aviation, including Orville Wright, for the ninth annual aircraft engineering research conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Run off with precise showmanship by affable, grey-haired Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, committee chairman and president of Johns Hopkins University, the conference developed from...