Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When President Hoover received the news from Hopewell, N. J. (see p. 12), he summoned a secretary, dictated the following statement for the Press: "I have directed the law enforcement agencies and the several secret services of the Federal Government to make the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby a live and never-to-be-forgotten case, never to be relaxed until these criminals are implacably brought to justice...
...Negro from Marshall's Corner N.J. had not decided to get out of his truck and relieve himself in the woods a mile from Hopewell last week, a half-dozen accredited negotiators and a hemisphere's police would still be looking for kidnapped, murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Orville Wilson. It was a human skull. On it and nearby were wisps of yellow hair. Wilson hopped in the truck and made for Hopewell, where he found Charley Williams, one of Hopewell's two policemen, in a barber's chair. To him Wilson babbled their discovery of the Lindbergh baby. Policeman Williams notified the State Police and together they went back to the hillside spot, visible on a clear day from the Lindbergh home on Sourland Mountain, five miles away...
...newspapermen had been hurriedly summoned from Trenton and Hopewell for the official announcement in the Lindbergh garage. The discovery made hushed after-dinner talk for most U.S. citizens, but the child's father did not learn about it until nine hours after the body was found. It came to him by radio. Stirred on by John Hughes Curtis, charter member of the Norfolk, Va. triumvirate whose boat-building activities have placed him in contact with rum runners, Col. Lindbergh was groping hopelessly about the dark waters off Cape May, N. J.?still trying to buy his child back from...
...against the way Col. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf and his State Police had handled the investigation. Emerson L. Richards, Republican majority leader ot the State Senate, promised an inquiry. The County Detectives Association demanded Col. Schwarzkopf's removal: "This action will be asked entirely because of his inefficiency in the Lindbergh case. The child was found dead in close proximity to the home while hundreds of thousands of dollars were wasted in searching elsewhere. While Col. Schwarzkopf's men were being sent all over this country and Europe, officials who were trained in investigating such cases were forced to stand...