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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh of Little Falls, Minn, was in Congress. Like many of his colleagues, he sometimes took his 9-year-old son and namesake on the floor of the House. There he usually entrusted the yellow-haired youngster to his favorite doorkeeper, Sam Foley. The War came and Pacifist Representative Lindbergh was retired to private life and Sam Foley returned to his home in New York's Bronx to study...
Thus did Charles Augustus Lindbergh come face to face with the man who, according to police of two states and the Federal Government, abducted and probably murdered his first-born son on the windy night of March 1, 1932. Had he identified Hauptmann, asked excited newshawks, as the lookout in the Bronx cemetery the night the ransom money was passed? "I would be a fool to tell you," snapped District Attorney Foley...
...bill over to the New York office of the Department of Justice as one of the 4,750 gold and silver certificates passed through an opening in the hedge of a Bronx cemetery on the night of April 2, 1932 by John F. ("Jafsie") Condon as ransom for Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. More than $5,000 of the ransom money had turned up in 716 transactions during the past two years. But no one who had received any of it had ever been alert enough to connect it with the case. License number 4U-13-41, penciled on the bill...
When Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis (NR 211) to Paris in 1927, the world called him "Lucky Lindy." Last year when Col. Lindbergh & wife flew their Lockheed Sirius monoplane Tingmissartoq (NR 211 No. 2) around the North and South Atlantic, the Lindbergh luck still held. Few weeks ago Col. Lindbergh acquired a third plane with the historic license number NR 211. It was a fast little Monocoupe especially built for him in St. Louis...
...created a philosophy, a religion, and an empire. This fact makes Italy impervious to criticism from abroad. We can regard with supreme disparagement those doctrines which come from elsewhere, from a people which did not even know how to write when we had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus...