Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TREASURY DEPARTMENT HAS ASKED ALL BANKS IN THE COUNTRY TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A SERIES OF FIVE, TEN AND TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS, WHICH ARE NOT COUNTERFEIT BUT WHICH BEAR RECORDED NUMBERS. THE UNITED PRESS HAS BEEN ASKED BY COLONEL LINDBERGH NOT TO GIVE THIS STORY PUBLICATION BECAUSE IT WOULD SERIOUSLY INTERFERE WITH THE WORK THE FAMILY IS DOING TO RECOVER THE CHILD. NEEDLESS TO SAY THE DEDUCTIONS TO BE DRAWN FROM THIS SITUATION ARE OBVIOUS AND RUMORS TO THE EFFECT THAT THE BABY IS HOME ARE ERRONEOUS...
This bulletin, issued last Saturday morning at the personal request of Col. Lindbergh, was to kill the story that Lindbergh had been victimized either by the abductors of his son or by impostors. Minutes before, the Newark (N. J.) Evening News was on the street with the information. The Associated Press and International News Service picked up the Evening News story and transmitted it to the nation. The United Press had the story but held it up at Col. Lindbergh's request...
...story was soon confirmed by Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey State Police on Col. Lindbergh's behalf: "A ransom of $50,000 was paid to the kidnappers, properly identified as such, upon their agreement to notify Col. Lindbergh as to the exact whereabouts of the baby. The baby was not found at the point designated. Several days were permitted to elapse to give the kidnappers every opportunity to keep their agreement...
...Lindbergh "properly identified" the person or persons to whom he gave the $50,000 was thus officially explained: "At the time the baby was kidnapped a ransom note demanding $50,000 was left in the nursery. For obvious reasons it was necessary to withhold all information concerning this ransom note. A means was offered in the ransom note of positive identification of the kidnappers thereafter. Subsequent notes received were identified by this means and at the time that the ransom was paid over the kidnappers used this same means to positively identify themselves as the ones who had carried...
Happy Landing has to do with a young man, not unlike Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who sets out on a transpacific flight. Just to make it more difficult, the playwrights have the journey begin at Old Orchard, Me. That such a feat could be accomplished without refueling is explained by having the heroine (Margaret Sullavan). mention "the new carburetor" with which the ship is equipped. When the youth gets back home he is, of course, a national hero. He lunches with the President, is made a colonel in the reserve flying corps and runs into a rich and comely lion-hunter...