Word: hauptmanns
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Deposited to the account of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh in Manhattan were $14,665 in gold notes-residue of the $50,000 ransom he paid to Bruno Richard Hauptmann...
...salutation and I stood up, drew him aside and said, "Lou, do you mean that, or are you kidding?" He assured me, with another offensive remark, that he meant it. I led him outside, asked for apology, received none, and struck. There was one blow, no word of either Hauptmann case or next day's election. Verify by Rainbow Room attendants who picked up Wedemar and put him in elevator. I returned to table, made brief speech, no diner knew of unfortunate happening. Disparity in weights, yes. My suggestion to Wedemar that next time he feels urge to call...
After year and a half of vicious newspaper opposition, sales tax resentment, Lindbergh-Hauptmann-Wendel-Schwarzkopf misrepresentations, disappointed job seekers and political monkey-wrench-throwing of Everett Colby et al., my total vote was well within 10% of the total vote I polled in the Gubernatorial primary of 1934. Believe it or not, I consider the results of May 19 primary, 1936, as most satisfying of 15 successive political victories...
...Ambassador to France. Into the fight at the last minute had jumped onetime Congressman Franklin W. Fort, who emerged from political retirement to offer himself as a substitute for Governor Hoffman on the Landon slate. Mr. Fort's sole issue: the Governor's handling of the Hauptmann case (TIME, April 13). Said Republican Fort of Republican Hoffman: "No man has done more in my memory to attempt to break down the fundamental American respect for the power and dignity of our courts of justice...
...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia rounded up a roomful of bigwigs, including New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman. Beefy Governor Hoffman promptly proceeded to put the show on the front pages by flooring with one blow a spindly Hearstling named Lou Wedemar who heckled him about his handling of the Hauptmann case. After this preliminary bout the bigwigs were taken to look at the show. Advertised as a "representative cross-section of American art," it was really a representative cross-section of American taste. Organized U. S. artists had boycotted it because the Municipal Art Committee refused to pay artists...