Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artists, the artisans, and the adventurers do not. They are a small minority, but they are a very important minority. I appeal for them because it is more important to our civilization that one potential artist like Shelley, one scholar like Gibbon, one artisan like Edison, one adventurer like Lindbergh, be kept out of college than that a thousand more incipient junior executives, Ph.D. candidates, and museum curators...
...years have so many nationally famed bridal pairs as 1929. To the names of Anne and Augustus (Lindbergh) were added Ina and John (Gilbert), presently to be followed by Florence and John (Coolidge). Last week in anticipation of the event Mrs. Coolidge went on a little journey with her daughter-in-law-to-be?whose ivory satin princess wedding gown by Patou, cap of duchesse lace and bouquet of orchids and lilies of the valley were already matters of record. Together they visited New Haven, where John is a clerk in the offices of the New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...month freckled, tatter- demalion, 14-year-old Ray (William McKinley) Burraker tiptoed into the camp carrying a pet opossum to his President. As a special treat, the President introduced his benefactor to a tall curly-haired man. Ray was not impressed?he had never heard of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Last week Pa Burraker and President Hoover settled down in a couple of chairs under the trees. The President said that he "and his friends" would contribute $1,200 to build a schoolhouse where Ray, and 19 other children of five families living thereabouts, could be educated. The nearest schoolhouse...
Perspiring freely, Newsman Spaeth hung up, blurted out his story to City Editor A. E. M. Bergener. A hard-boiled newsman, City Editor Bergener was skeptical. He recalled how he had sent a reporter to the residence of Mrs. Charles Long Cutter, Mrs. Lindbergh's grandmother, earlier in the day. The reporter had reported "No interview." Still, there was just a chance. The News had been courteous to Mrs. Lindbergh when she visited Cleveland just before her marriage. Perhaps the Lindberghs had remembered that, decided to return the courtesy. City Editor Bergener ordered another newsman to telephone the Cutter...
...chance or otherwise, the day after Col. Lindbergh inspected Packard products, old issue Packard stock went up 7¼ points on the New York exchange; new issue Packard stock rose 1⅞ points...