George Teeple Eggleston papers 1918-1985

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George Teeple Eggleston papers 1918-1985

The papers of George Teeple Eggleston, editor of , , and , and one of the founders of the pre-World War II America Firstmovement. Scribner’s Commentator Life Reader’sDigest

2.48 cubic ft. (4 boxes)

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Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...

America First Committee

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Eggleston, George Teeple, 1906-

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George Teeple Eggleston was born in Oakland, California in 1906. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1929. In the late 1930s, until the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was very active in the America First movement with Charles Lindbergh. At that time, he was editor-in-chief of Scribner's Commentator, dedicated to keeping America out of war. The public outcry against the America First movement affected Eggleston. Eggleston was discharged from military service and there were ru...