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Anne Spencer Morrow, fiancée of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, poured tea, one afternoon last week at the U. S. Embassy in Mexico City, for Richard Barthelmess, cinemactor...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh, flying from east to west across the continent swerved south to Eagle Pass, Tex., to Mexico City, to pay a visit...
Especially after his engagement to Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow's daughter Anne (TIME, Feb. 25), the rumor grew that President-Elect Hoover would give Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh a sub-Cabinet job. The rumor vexed Mr. Hoover. Perhaps that was a reason for Col. Lindbergh's unexpected appointment last week by Secretary Whiting to be technical adviser to the aeronautical branch of the Department of Commerce...
...Lindbergh holds similar advisory positions with the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (of which he is also a trustee); with the Trans-Continental Air Transport (for whom last week he started to fly across the continent via Mexico City); and with Pan-American Airways, Inc. (whose Florida-to-Panama mail route he inaugurated last fortnight). His salaries from these civilian organizations have never been made public. His contract with Pan-American Airways forbids his advising any other companies doing a foreign transport business...
Other, almost forgotten sources of Lindbergh income are royalties from the sale of his book We, pay from the New York Times for articles signed by him and duty-pay from the Missouri National Guard in which he is a colonel. For flying from Long Island to Paris he received $25,000 from Hotelman Raymond Orteig of Philadelphia ; for his Good Will flight over Mexico and Central America, $25,000 from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation...