Word: lindberghism
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...conclusion the Prime Minister gratefully recalled that Mr. Herrick always "sought with gentle obstinacy solutions compatible with French interests," adding, "Ambassador Herrick regarded the achievement of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh as crowning the work to which he himself was wholly devoted...
Young Germany sees the U. S. singing. Composer Ernst Krenek chose a U. S. Negro jazzer for his Jonny Spielt Auf. Another modernist, Kurt Weill, has found inspiration for a new cantata in the Lindbergh flight. Written for the July Festival in Baden-Baden, a drowsy watering place in the Black Forest which has found itself the seat of radical musical experiment, the composer also intends The Lindbergh Flight for radio consumption. The cantata was publicly described last week for the first time...
...story about Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. had been printed not long before (TIME, Feb. 25). Soon Mrs. Christie wrote her thanks to TIME, and the letter too was printed. The press picked it up, sent it broadcast. Editors in far-away cities editorialed. The alert Minneapolis Star sent a pleasant photographer who snapped a very good likeness ?the one used by nearly all the rotogravures...
That was how the machine leaped into action ? the billion dollar U. S. press. But why? Not because editors had not known that Col. Lindbergh has a half-sister. Not because Mrs. Christie wrote a letter, or because it was printed, or because TIME printed the story about her father. The cause lay deeper...
...like her radical Congressman father, is opposed to "the system which has fostered the present great concentration of wealth in the hands of a small per cent of the population." That was the big news: the fact that there is actually alive a child of the late Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. who opposes what he called the Money Trust! That was the electric, potent shock which set editors editing, rotos rotating...