Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindbergh for Cover
June 20.) I salute you for your remark about Colonel Lindbergh's picture being...
...Army-Navy war game off the coast of New England (TIME, May 30), Mr Mitchell sniffed at the folly of continuing to base military strategy on the operations of "archaic" warships, but his observations were not widely published. Last week, however, the failure of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to function properly when the aviator attempted to fly in it from Washington to Manhattan, prompted Mr. Mitchell to further criticisms. After maintaining that the Spirit of St. Louis suffered exposure to corrosive salt air while being transported home on the U. S. cruiser Memphis ("there...
Damon Runyon (sports writer, murder trial reporter) described Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's appearance during the ceremonies in Washington as follows: "He looked so frightened, and so very, very young that you felt your old Adam's apple working, and you wished that you might get to him, and put your arm around him, like you would do with the lad at home, and say to him: 'Now, looky here, sonny, don't you be scart, these folks are just trying to let you know they're glad...
...voyaged on an excursion to Ostend, Belgium, for the Rotary International convention (TIME, June 6), listened with rapt attention to King Albert of Belgium last week. His Majesty, himself a Rotarian, praised the U. S. delegates "whose crossing of the Atlantic-the Atlantic which your fellow countryman, Captain Lindbergh, crossed alone in some 30 hours-is indeed an important event. It proves the strength of Rotarian feeling and co-operative spirit...