Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindbergh Week...
...April 14-20 and at the same in time suggested that other localities join Detroit in observing this that week. He agreed with me in a recent letter that the week beginning May 20 would then include the date of the most heroic feat of our day#151;Lindbergh's flight to Paris...
...Lindbergh" is a synonym for aviation, the meaning of which is much more readily understood by the youth of today, therefore why have an aviation week at all? Why not make it "Lindbergh Week" so that the tie between this hero's name and aviation may never be severed...
...hair, loneliness and lack of ignoble motives. The actual lobbying, which usually consists in more or less furtive arguments by adroit advocates in the corridors and committee rooms of Congress, in this case took place at Boiling Field, far away from Capitol Hill. The lobbyist was Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his sole argument was an airplane. He took several score of Congressmen up for a fly. It seemed unlikely that any of them would ever thereafter vote against any air law that may be endorsed by Lobbyist Lindbergh...
...Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts and Mrs. Katherine Langley of Kentucky, were among the first passengers. William P. McCracken Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, was the master of ceremonies who ushered them into the cabin of a huge Fokker transport plane belonging to the Army. Lobbyist Lindbergh sat at the controls smiling. He taxied the length of the muddy field twice, then swooped the legislators around over Washington for a quarter-hour...