Word: lindberghism
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When Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. 40 songs were promptly written about him in the U. S. Some were serious, some slapstick, all packed with platitudes. "Lucky Lindy" and "Lindbergh, the Eagle of the U. S. A." were most popular but they were soon forgotten. It was a German importation on the Lindbergh theme which Conductor Leopold Stokowski considered worthy of two Philadelphia orchestra performances in Philadelphia last week. Perhaps because it was composed expressly for radio performance,*Stokowski chose to give it in the last of four nationwide broadcasts sponsored by the Philadelphia (Philco) Storage Battery...
...established airway might use white lights; all others must be red. The hotel placed a red screen over the lens of its searchlight, but the rays were so weakened that advertising value was nil. Last month the light was discontinued. Exceptions to the red-light rule: the Lindbergh Beacon atop Chicago's Palmolive building; the revolving light on Washington's Wardman Park Hotel...
...offered him a swig of liquor. He refused it, took a gulp of coffee. The Spaniards kept him jailed for a month. Then Spanish-American fighting ended. Captain Hobson, 28, "handsome, tall and moral," returned to the U. S. a Hero, some four years be fore a later Hero (Lindbergh) was born. Girls kissed Hero Hobson in cities from one end of the country to the other. Candy makers produced the "Hobson Kiss," a block of chewy confection...
...Princeton N. J. last week, Charles Augustus Lindbergh announced that his widely announced tour of South America would be postponed for several months. Reason: lest it be construed he was going as a rival attraction...
...asks Chief Travers, "could Constance be guarded from harm? . . . How easy for a desperate criminal to masquerade as a reporter or photographer and await his chance to mutilate or kill a member of the family. . . . There was one obvious solution, and Colonel Lindbergh and Anne Morrow chose to adopt it. Late on Monday, May 27, 1929. a laconic announcement was issued [that they] had been married and had left on their honeymoon. . . . The siege of the Morrow estate [was] lifted. Detectives now were able to guard Constance Morrow efficiently...