Word: lindberghism
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...attitude of Nemo isn't fair. I do not question, and I doubt if Lindbergh would question, the fact that the crass vulgarities of Nemo and his type are true reflections of character. Even if addled adolescents were not so noisily boastful about their Scollay Square standards, the same would be as obvious as dirty finger nails. No one disputes their preference for bawds, flasks and vacuums. It is easy to believe that their taste is genuine. By the same token one can readily admit the looseness of their code of business ethics. If they were on the other...
...mind, Lindbergh is as genuinely of the former type as Nemo is of the opposite. How come, I can't explain, but there you are. To make me believe that Lindbergh was guilty of trickery or of collusion with trickery, would require as much evidence as to make me believe that Nemo was guilty of decency. The one stands innocent, by virtue of his record, until proved guilty; the other by virtue of his record, stands guilty until proved--awful thought--innocent. Frederick Orin Bartlett
...opinions expressed in your column, "Yesterday", ridiculing Colonel Lindbergh, and his respectful protest to the president against condemning aviation companies without a proper hearing, were it seems to me in extremely poor taste...
...Charles A. Lindbergh, the well known international boy scout, apparently does not view the order cancelling all air mail contracts with unmixed joy. Unfortunately, his telegram to Mr. Roosevelt was not appreciated by the President, who, oddly enough, felt that the former Boy Hero's motives were not entirely altruistic in spite of the fact that Lindbergh was thoughtful enough to publish the telegram prior to sending it so that Mr. Roosevelt could read all about it in the papers before he received...
...While Lindbergh is not in any way implicated in the scandal it is hardly possible to believe that he was not pretty well aware of what was going on, for he was high in the councils of a company which is one of the chief offenders. Moreover, he is financially interested in the companies which are affected by the new order, and his great yen for justice in this case is all too intimately connected with his pocketbook. Apparently, he expected--somewhat naively, one is inclined to think--that any telegram from him would simply be assumed to proceed from...