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What Charles Augustus Lindbergh has to say was becoming far less important to U.S. citizens than the argument over his continuing right...
...Oklahoma City, last week, when it was announced that Lindbergh was booked to speak at municipal hall, citizens rushed to the city council with objections. Said the American Legion: "He advocates peace towards ruthless nations and his utterances provoke disunity . . . when our very preservation depends on unity." Said the Knights of Pythias: "[He] has repeatedly expressed himself as adverse to the principles of Americanism." The city council canceled the booking...
From the America First Committee, sponsoring the rally, from Oklahoma's Governor himself, redheaded Leon C. Phillips, came protests. From neighboring Kansas came a sizzler that scorched the grass on the prairies. Careful to point out that it did not agree with Lindbergh, William Allen White's Emporia Gazette snorted...
...where a 'nigger's got to know his place' . . . where the Ku Klux Klan still ranges in their primordial shirttails through the cow pastures and where cro-magnon men still roam the wilderness in dinner coats and black ties. . . . Also where they do not allow Charles Lindbergh to speak...
...nervy, bad-weather flights did more than give him a reputation for courage; they pioneered a flight technique which every military pilot must master today. A tireless long-distance pilot, Andy Andrews several U.S. and world records (including three once held by Charles A. Lindbergh...