Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, an outstanding episode during the Lindbergh visit occurred when the visitor's swart compatriots made him the bearer of a concurrent resolution of their Legislature, addressed to President Coolidge, asking that Puerto Rico be separated from the U. S., as an independent State, so that its people should be "Americans" no longer. The reason given was that a "grave economic situation" existed. There were jobs for only one in three of Puerto Rico's 1,250,000 inhabitants and this, charged the native politicos, was the fault...
...Lindbergh, punctual messenger, delivered the resolution when he reached Washington. President Coolidge also received a cablegram from President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker Jose Toussoto of the Puerto Rican House, confirming the resolution's import. Disappointed, hurt, President Coolidge delayed answering until last fortnight, when he wrote a long letter to Horace Mann Towner, the onetime (1911-23) Congressman from Iowa whom President Harding made Governor of Porto Rico five years...
...things that sound like lies, and then prove them to be absolutely true. His medium is a cartoon entitled "Believe It or Not," which appears daily in the New York Evening Post and 100 other newspapers. His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh was the 67th man to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean." Three thousand indignant letter-writers demanded that Mr. Ripley apologize. He calmly informed them that Alcock and Brown made a nonstop flight between Newfoundland and Ireland...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh recently called on Postmaster General Harry Stewart New. He saw a bust of himself standing on the mantlepiece, looked at it with a pained expression, said: "Don't like it. Makes me look like a high school debater...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh...