Post World War I America was captivated by the daring of men like Charles Lindbergh and Richard Peary.
Key Lindbergh for many years wrote to legislators promoting Solar and Renewable Energy and many others.
After the 1932 abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby, kidnapping became a federal crime.
It resulted in the Lindbergh Law, which permitted federal authorities to chase kidnappers across state lines.
For nearly a decade Lindbergh was as great a hero in our neighborhood as he was everywhere else.
He long ago captured the heart of another man's girlfriend while tracing Charles Lindbergh's air route to Paris.
"I think we share the same spirit, " Piccard said of Lindbergh, the first pilot to solo across the Atlantic.
Louis businessmen, after all, who backed Charles A. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight in 1927.
His new scientific methods lead, in 1934, to the capture of Bruno Hauptmann, the kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby.
In 1936, Bruno Hauptman was electrocuted in Trenton, New Jersey, for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh infant.
Roosevelt to aviator Charles Lindbergh, were leading players in that ferocious battle in which the stakes couldn't have been higher.
As for Anne Lindbergh, although she became aware of the flaws in her knight, Charles never quite lost his shine.
Witness ongoing foundations bearing the names of such deceased luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Arthur Ashe, Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Lindbergh and Elvis Presley.
Federal state and local law enforcement, Coast Guard boats and military helicopters joined in the largest manhunt since the Lindbergh baby kidnapping in 1932.
That night Rabbi Bengelsdorf disclosed to America what he claimed to be the true motive behind Lindbergh's personal flying missions to Germany in the 1930s.
When Charles Lindbergh made the first transatlantic flight he captured the imagination of billions, and four million people lined 5th Avenue for his ticker tape parade.
The names Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Fatty Arbuckle, Sophie Tucker, Charles Lindbergh, Walter Winchell, Sally Rand, Leopold and Loeb play through the novel's pages.
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On a good day, you'd come home with a buck and a half -- two bucks or more if the World Series was on or Lindbergh was flying.
It's not between Charles A. Lindbergh and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Following the trial, the Lindberghs left America, hoping through a temporary expatriation to protect a new Lindbergh infant from harm and to recover some measure of the privacy they coveted.
Louis, passing visibly above downtown Newark at precisely the moment she comes to realize that, in a feat no less triumphant for a mortal than Lindbergh's, she has conceived Sanford Roth.
Lindbergh's not mentioning the Jews was to them a trick and no more, the initiation of a campaign of deceit intended both to shut us up and to catch us off guard.
So severe was the criticism from Democratic cabinet members like Interior Secretary Harold Ickes that Lindbergh resigned his reserve commission as an Army colonel rather than serve under FDR as his commander in chief.
Then the Republicans nominated Lindbergh and everything changed.
Arrayed against the interventionists were many high-ranking military officers and the America First movement, whose anti-Semitic strains came to the surface in a Lindbergh speech that left him discredited among many Americans who once glorified him.
General Schwarzkopf told me he learned a lot about respect and dealing calmly and appropriately with people from his father, who was a U.S. Army major and the lead investigator in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case.
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