Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplishing the outstanding historical and epoch-making event of crossing the Atlantic, I believe Charles A. Lindbergh was entitled to have his picture on the front page of your last issue...
Inhabitants of France, Belgium, England and the U. S., heaping glory, poetry and publicity upon 25-year-old Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh, found him so natural and so tactful that they predicted he would never unmake his fame. Was not the same immortality predicted for 61-year-old Admiral George Dewey...
...Lindbergh. It was a modest, a natural, a lovable, a well-prepared man whom Europe honored laet week, while the U. S. swelled with pride and prepared a homecoming. Unquestionably, Captain Lindbergh is a more stimulating hero than Admiral Dewey ever was. He conquered alone-with only his monoplane; he had no Gridley, no escorting fleet...
...Paris. President Gaston Dou-mergue pinned the cross of the Legion of Honor upon Captain Lindbergh, on the day of the modest remark: "It is much easier to fly from America to Europe than to fly from Europe to America...
...French Chamber of Deputies cheered with gusto when U. S. Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick introduced Captain Lindbergh as "this new Ambassador of the United States, whom France has so warmly taken to her heart...