Word: lindberghism
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...White House portico rolled a borrowed automobile. Crowds gaped at the front seat, stacked with two suitcases and a worn valise, and at the back seat, occupied by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh & Wife. They got out, entered the White House. Governor Leslie of Indi- ana, loitering in the lobby, stepped forward for a handshake. Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh marched on to the Executive Offices where President Hoover waited for them. Col. Lindbergh placed himself at the President's left. Government officials connected with aviation pressed close to watch President Hoover pull out a large $1,500 gold medal* voted by Congress...
...Lindbergh, after a long embarrassed pause, almost whispered: "I thank you . . . my thanks to Congress . . . my appreciation . . . my thanks...
Later President Hoover took Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh to his Rapidan camp. Other guests: Assistant Secretary of War Davison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young. Talk topic: aviation, commercial and military. Col. Lindbergh played at throwing darts with his wife, watched others putt around a Tom Thumb golf course built by Marines near the President's camp...
...Putnam prominence in aviation publishing (Lindbergh's We, Harry Frank Guggenheim's The Seven Skies) is also traceable to this versatile Putnam, who was among Amelia Earhart's backers and helped produce Wings, This venture into cinema led to the formation of Talking Picture Epics, Inc., George Palmer Putnam, vice president, producers of Com- modore George M. Dyott's Hunting Tigers in India, Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, Robert Cushman Murphy's Bottom of the World...
...Roscoe Turner. Average flying time was 179 m.p.h., sometimes as high as 240. Pilot Hawks complained of headwinds over most of the course, varying between 20 and 30 m.p.h. He prepared to attack the west-east record of 14 hr. 45 min. set last Easter by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh with Mrs. Lindbergh...