Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Science (weekly) published a brief paper entitled: "A Method for Washing Corpuscles in Suspension." The paper was signed "C. A. Lindbergh, Division of Experimental Surgery, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.'' Accompanying it was a neat drawing, minutely signed "C. A. Lindbergh 2/15/32," of an improved centrifuge...
Identified last week as Col. Lindbergh's intermediary with the kidnappers was Dr. John F. Condon, an elderly lecturer at Fordham University in The Bronx. Dr. Condon it was who inserted the 13 "personal" advertisements in New York newspapers signed "Jafsie" (J. F. C.) whereby communication was maintained with the baby-snatchers. These advertisements referred to "ready money" and a "principal" who had to be "satisfied," with "the real articles," promised to "follow your instructions" and insisted on a "C. O. D." transaction. On April 2 Dr. Condon delivered the ransom money to the kidnappers' agent with whom contact...
...Lindbergh's known movements throughout the week indicated step-by-step the course of his negotiations with the criminals and their subsequent collapse. Early last week he and his lawyer. Col. Henry Breckinridge, onetime Assistant Secretary of War, hopped over the back fence at Newark Airport, flew away in a borrowed airplane and were reported some time later inquiring on Cuttyhunk Island. Mass, for a yacht known as the Sally or the Nellie. Next day they borrowed another plane, made a similar flight over the same area. It was 48 hours after these trips that the Treasury Department was asked...
Speculation as to the reasons for the failure of Col. Lindbergh's negotiations were three: 1) he had given the money to "chiselers" who were unable to return the child; 2) if he had paid the actual kidnappers, they might be holding out for more money; 3) his child was dead. After it got out that he had sought Federal aid in tracing the ransom money, Col. Lindbergh reiterated his promise not to "try to injure" the criminals if only they would return the child. A spokesman for him admitted that "he feared that his action in calling upon Federal...
...Tough to be Famous (Warner). No sooner had the stage turned to the Lindbergh saga for a new pattern (Happy Landing, TIME, April 4) than the screen did likewise. Perhaps the screen turned first, for It's Tough to be Famous was withheld from the public for several weeks because of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., captain of a disabled submarine, having saved the members of his crew is prepared to stay submerged and die. Rescuers pry him off the bottom of the sea and into a more embarrassing if less dangerous predicament. He is welcomed ashore...