Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, Boatbuilder John H. Curtis and Sheriff John H. Curtiss made their bits of pre-trial news. Shortly after the baby disappeared, Mr. Curtis went up from Norfolk, Va. to tell Col. Lindbergh that he was in touch with the kidnappers. When the child's body was found, Curtis renounced his story, was convicted of obstructing justice. He was just barely kept out of jail by Lawyer W. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington. In the past two years he and Lawyer Fisher have grown to be fast friends. Flabbergasted was Friend Fisher, now an associate in Hauptmann's defense...
...More than 400 reporters and special correspondents have applied for seats at the trial. In the little room under the roof, Western Union set up 75 sending machines, Postal 50, a battery calculated to dispatch 1,000,000 words a day on the case. Sheriff John H. Curtiss (who added the second "s" to his name after the exposure of Boat-Builder John H. Curtis) good-naturedly turned over his private office to two news services...
...bondholder tried to appear in person, only to be politely turned away at the door. Another uninvited guest appeared but he was allowed in. He was Arthur Curtiss James, largest individual owner of railroad stocks in the U. S. Chairman of Western Pacific, dapper, bearded Mr. James has long been trying to merge his carrier with...
Drifting foully across nearly every South American capital, the dread fumes of scandal left by the U. S. Senate's munitions inquiry settled most heavily last week on Argentina's Buenos Aires. Frantically officers of Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. cabled the city of Good Air that nothing was ever said to justify an implication that commissions had been offered to Argentinians or accepted by them...
...false peace descended when, finally, the Argentine Judge Advocate General announced that a thorough investigation had cleared all Argentine army officers in dealings with Curtiss-Wright...