Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew he was a good flier and had been pleased to have the public acknowledge it, but matter-of-fact Lindbergh could no more understand the public's mass hysteria than the public could understand...
...maddened mob, he met earnest, poetic, adventurous Anne Morrow. With earnest, adventurous (but not poetic) Charles Lindbergh she had much in common. After their wedding at Englewood his war with the press grew more bitter. Newshawks and cameramen hounded them on their honeymoon. A few weeks later in a mass interview, a reporter asked Lindbergh whether his wife was pregnant yet. He whitened with anger...
Actually, Lindbergh, who has seen many a Russian military airplane, is convinced that their performance is inferior, their construction too involved for mass production. He has also had a good look at the German Air Force, and is convinced that Germany has the air supremacy in Europe, will hold it for some years to come. He expressed his opinions privately to friends, including Lord and Lady Astor, and some in the U. S. (like Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames of NACA), But there was never any banquet of the Cliveden Set, and Lindbergh does not think it likely that British foreign...
Justice. While France made every effort to persuade the former Loyalists to go back home, much of the news that filtered through the tightly censored French-Spanish frontier was not calculated to encourage mass reentry. Eighteen permanent tribunals were said to be working in Madrid trying Loyalists; there were said to be 500 arrests in Barcelona and Madrid daily; 2,000 awaited trials in Madrid alone; 688 have been executed; 20,-ooo were in a concentration camp near Alicante. Although there were accusations still outstanding against 1,000,000 persons in former Loyalist territory, the police appealed to the public...
...June 20. Back she started. The passengers tried to keep up their spirits with games, music, religious services; a patrol was organized to prevent suicides. The last slim hope of the refugees was to find a haven in the Old World. The Nazi Government, needled by the danger of mass suicide on the St. Louis, and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees expect to find a refuge this week for her freight in Britain, France, Belgium or The Netherlands...