Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindbergh holds similar advisory positions with the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (of which he is also a trustee); with the Trans-Continental Air Transport (for whom last week he started to fly across the continent via Mexico City); and with Pan-American Airways, Inc. (whose Florida-to-Panama mail route he inaugurated last fortnight). His salaries from these civilian organizations have never been made public. His contract with Pan-American Airways forbids his advising any other companies doing a foreign transport business...
Other, almost forgotten sources of Lindbergh income are royalties from the sale of his book We, pay from the New York Times for articles signed by him and duty-pay from the Missouri National Guard in which he is a colonel. For flying from Long Island to Paris he received $25,000 from Hotelman Raymond Orteig of Philadelphia ; for his Good Will flight over Mexico and Central America, $25,000 from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation...
What man, now living, do you admire the most? Lindbergh, and "my father," 25; Andrew W. Melion, 20; Herbert Hoover, 19; Bernard Shaw, 18; Thomas A. Edison, 16; Mussolini, 13; Alfred E. Smith, 9; Henry Ford, 5; Einstein, and "Myself," 4, Richard E. Byrd, and Dwight W. Morrow...
...Yale Daily News, prefer a Phi Beta Kappa key to a major "Y" earned in sports, incline towards Harvard as their favorite college next to Yale, and in answer to the question, "What man, now living do you admire most?" cast a tie vote for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and "my father." They believe English to be the most valuable subject and psychology the least valuable...
Seniors of the Sheffield Scientific School, according to the same announcement, voted to a tie in selecting President-elect Herbert Hoover and Colonel Lindbergh as their favorite world figure, prefer a major "Y" to Sigma Xi, and hold Princeton as their favorite college next to Yale. Their list of favorites in various fields includes d'Artagnan in fiction; Napoleon in history; "The Three Musketeers" among novels; Dumas among prose authors; "If" among poems; and Tennyson among poets. The class favors the Republican Party over the Democratic Party by a vote...