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Charles Augustus Lindbergh ("Good Will") has been stained in glass for a window of the Trinity Methodist-Episcopal Church of Springfield, Mass. Other large figures in the window: John Wesley ("Evangelism"), Bishop Phillips Brooks ("Prophecy"). Other smaller figures: Columbus, Bach, Shakespeare, Frank Billings Kellogg...
...Lindbergh dicta: "I do not think we have any airports in the U. S. today that may be considered models for the future. Two or three are now being constructed, but we have nothing to compare with those in Europe...
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics MacCracken exercised his persuasive powers, induced Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh to fly from New York to Washington last week, to tell a joint committee of Congress what sort of airport the capital ought to have. To the Committee, headed by air-minded Senator Bingham of Connecticut, Col. Lindbergh laid down the following specifications...
Seldom a handshaker, Col. Lindbergh is even less often a "joiner." For him it has been boasted that the only air clubs to which he belongs are the Caterpillar club (parachutests) and the Q. B. (Quiet Birdmen). Last fortnight he paid $1,000 to join Aviation Country Clubs, Inc., electing as his home club the one which is to be erected at Hicksville...
Almost as if he knew what Col. Lindbergh had in mind Anthony Fokker, addressing a banquet aboard the new Holland-America Liner Statendam, announced that within six weeks his company would complete a 32-passenger plane powered with four 600 h. p. motors...