Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sisto revelation brought no immediate surge of public indignation against foxy Mayor Walker. The news of his bonds was juxtaposed with news of his Beer Parade, and pure chance sent also the discovery of the Lindbergh baby's corpse. Besides, the New York public had waited months for the Mayor's turn to come in an inquiry of which everyone realized the prosecution was as political as the defense. The public seemed interested not so much in what Mayor Walker had done-$26,535 seemed small potatoes indeed for a man of his parts...
...Owen D. Young, Edward A. Filene, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., cigarets, oranges, electric lights. Old Dan Beard has had a pigeonhole since Henry Romeike's time. Sir Thomas Lipton was a client until his death, received packing-boxes full of clippings after the last Gold Cup race. Col. Lindbergh was a client of a small agency before his takeoff for Paris. When the bureau sued him for payment last year he declared he had contracted only for the first $35 worth. Harry Kendall Thaw has long been a subscriber. Largest order handled by Romeike in a single month was that...
Died. Mrs. Jack Maddux, 40, pioneer woman flyer, with her husband founder of Maddux Air Lines (now Transcontinental & Western); of heart disease following a minor operation; in Los Angeles. Last fortnight she visited her good friends, Col. & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Died. Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, 58, Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard Service; of pneumonia; in Washington. Directing from his bed the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby, Admiral Billard overtaxed his strength, died before being informed of the Curtis hoax...
...mentioned in the encyclical were three events of the past three weeks which doubtless contributed to the Pope's dismay at the state of the world-the assassinations of President Doumer of France and Premier Inukai of Japan and the finding of the murdered Lindbergh baby. But last week the Vatican's daily Osservatore Romano, commenting on Inukai's death, observed that recent criminal acts were enough "to make the world blush ... [a] most execrable offense to civilization...