Word: lindberghism
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...Just hand them up here. All of them." Aghast, the witness obeyed. A committee investigator ruffled through the papers, finally-handed one to the chairman. In a few minutes press wires were burning with a startling fact which was, however, wholly irrelevant to the investigation. The fact: Charles A. Lindbergh received 25,000 shares of T. A. T. stock (worth $250,000), plus an option on 25,000 more at the same price, plus his $10,000-a-year salary, upon becoming chairman of T. A. T.'s technical committee in 1928. A letter of transmittal from Clement Melville...
...Lindbergh kidnapping might have been solved if the federal secret service alone had taken charge of it," continued Mr. Loesch. "It was mishandled because of the professional pride of the New Jersey police. What America needs is a centralized police force as in France. That would allow one officer to pursue his criminal all over the country without consulting bothersome local authorities...
...power. Other "biggest'' stories, chosen by one or more: California earthquake (TIME, March 20; April 3), San Jose lynchings (TIME, Dec. 4), death of President Coolidge (TIME, Jan. 16), the Cuban revolution (TIME, Aug. 21, et seq.), Wiley Post's world flight (TIME, July 31), Lindbergh's four-continent flight (TIME, July 31, et seq.), defeat of Tammany (TIME...
...Howe left, then moved to Amarillo, Tex. to start a chain of papers of his own. His column in the Amarillo News-Globe, The Tactless Texan, has given Gene Howe more than his neighborly nickname "Old Tack.'' He got himself nationally quoted in 1928, when he called Lindbergh "swell-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky"; in 1929, when he said that Mary Garden was "so old she actually tottered." When Mary Garden visited Amarillo for the second time, Gene Howe gave a tea for her at which 40 of his Amarillo cronies appeared in frock coats rented from Chicago...
...Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian began new 'negotiations to get the Wright plane back in the U. S. He would let Orville Wright write his own label if only the Museum might have the ship. For mediator of the old quarrel Dr. Abbot proposed Colonel Lindbergh, whose Spirit of St. Louis hangs permanently at the Smithsonian...