Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President thought that the U. S. should honor the Chamberlin flight as impressively as the Lindbergh flight. He hoped it would be legally possible to confer the Distinguished Flying Cross on Mr. Chamberlin. (Mr. Chamberlin is a civilian but would be eligible to the Cross by joining either an army or navy reserve corps. So, presumably, would Mr. Levine...
Congratulations upon not surrendering to mediocrity, to mass-thinking. Your printed sentiments concerning Colonel Lindbergh's great achievement, his splendid personal qualities, were noble, and clearly expressed [TIME, May 23, 30; June 6, 20, 27]. You have paid your tribute. To publish his photograph, added to ten thousand others, would be merely banal...
...amused at the railings of Bessie M. Hollis over your article [TIME, July 4] which referred to the Lindbergh-signed stories. Her indictment of TIME is absolutely unfounded, positively silly. And to think that she is a high-school teacher whose office involves the molding of youth into fairminded, liberal, charitable men and women. She may be able to pound mathematics or whatever she teaches into the heads of her unfortunate pupils, but I dare say that she leaves them totally devoid of inspiration resulting from the radiation of those fine and noble purposes which should actuate every schoolteacher...
...Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, joint backer with the U. S. Department of Commerce of Colonel Lindbergh's tour, announced a new policy: to lend money to U. S. passenger air lines to help them buy "the most modern, multi-engined airplanes of maximum safety and comfort" and thus speed the arrival of the day when engaging a sky-parlor car seat from Chicago to Denver, New Orleans or New York, and back, will be as little a novelty as it already is for a Parisian to slip over to London or Berlin for dinner...
...seen the wheezing ship pass over his courthouse and was among the first to welcome the visitors. He guided them to the local radio station. The army planes from Honolulu were sent over (60 miles southeast) to pick up heroes instead of victims. Pilot Smith used Charles Augustus Lindbergh's phrase as he set foot on Wheeler Field. "Well," he said, "here...