Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...13th issue p. 12, contains this statement: When he (meaning Lindbergh) left the following day, a family of Morons, island aristocrats...
TIME meant Morons. A branch of the Moron family, Venezuelans, has lived at St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) some hundred odd years, owns the Country Club field on which Col. Lindbergh landed. They are neither Moros nor morons...
...Passed a bill authorizing a Lindbergh medal to be struck, a gold original to be given to the subject, bronze copies to be sold to the public; sent it to the Senate...
...Passed a bill authorizing Col. Lindbergh to accept decorations from foreign governments...
Harry Brooks, chief test pilot of the Stout-Ford Airplane Co., carrier of Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh to Mexico, plunged into the sea off the coast of Melbourne, Fla., in a "flivver" plane of his own design. The wreckage was found afloat next day, but of Pilot Brooks there was no trace. He had hoped to see the day when his air "flivvers" would be in the hands of millions...