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Secretary of War George H. Dern today announced Baker's acceptance of chairmanship of the board on which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh refused to serve because he disapproved the cancellation of private air mail contracts...
...field. Democratic Senators O'Mahoney, Logan, McGill and Erickson decried it. Airline operators, rumbling concerted protest, argued that lines not now engaged in air transport could not get ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week's call for temporary bids as the "eighth distinct and conflicting policy adopted by the Post Office Department within . . . six weeks...
Informed that his first flying teacher, Major Ira O. Biffle, was desperately ill of heart disease and destitute in Chicago, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh contributed $50 to a fund for his medical care...
...foreign. In the last ten years they have begun to take an interest in history and philosophy; H. G. Wells's Outline of History (1926) has sold 684,000 copies and William J. Durant's The Story of Philosophy (1927), 545,000. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's We (1927) ran up a sale of 594,000. Latest book listed is Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929; 564,300). Only Nobel-Prizewinners: Henryk Sienkewicz, with Quo Vadis (1896; 504,600); Sinclair Lewis, with Main Street...
...would have nothing to do with the Army's airmail operations, Hero Lindbergh was quite willing to tell Congress what he thought about the contract cancellations and pending legislation to restore the mail job to private companies. The morning he was to appear before the Senate Post Office Committee the ornate caucus room in the Senate Office Building was packed and running over with a crowd that left no one in doubt as to his popularity. Senatorial secretaries deserted their desks, streaked through the hallways, tried to elbow their way inside. Lights glared while newsreel cameras waited. Senators basked...