Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among th 134 votes which favored other candidates were ten cast for Al Smith, six for ex-Governor Winant of New Hampshire, three for both Ogden Mills and Governor Hoffman, of Lindbergh kidnapping fame...
Threatened with impeachment by politicians, denounced by the Press and reviled by a vengeful public. Governor Hoffman directed the State Police "to continue their search for any other person or persons involved in the crime"; explained his action thus: "I ... share with hundreds of thousands of our people the doubt as to the value of the evidence that placed [Hauptmann] in the Lindbergh nursery on the night of the crime...
...Supreme Court had denied a last review of his conviction, and barely a day before he was scheduled to be electrocuted at the State Penitentiary in Trenton, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was last week granted a 30-day reprieve by New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. In effect the stay given by the portly young Republican will postpone for at least two months the execution of the alien carpenter for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Finally, one day last week, Dr. Martin R. Hoffman, psychiatrist from a nearby hospital, announced: "She will wake up tomorrow, because in repeated conversations all around her she has constantly heard it said it is the Lord's will that she waken on that day [the seventh]. If I had been able to convince her today that it was the day, or that we were alone in the room, she probably would have awakened immediately...
...W.P.A. project, a second concert by the Commonwealth Symphony Orchestra, Ernst Hoffman, conductor, will be held Thursday at 8:15 o'clock in Sanders Theatre...