Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh refused to pay ransom; if they backed the State police, Federal agents, private detectives; if they stood behind the powerful press, if they resolved to prosecute the criminals, they would wield such a mighty club that kidnapping would become a rare crime...
...That's just exactly what Col. Lindbergh would tell him!'' Preacher Dobson-Peacock exploded. "That man Shootskoff, or whatever his name is, has tried to hinder us from the outset. He and his men attempted to prevent us from seeing Col. Lindbergh when we drove to Hopewell and his men trailed us all the way back to Norfolk. Since then we feel that we have been under constant surveillance. In order to carry on negotiations with the kidnappers we have been forced to dodge and double on our trails like common criminals...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was alive, he became 21 months old last week, the fourth week since he was snatched from his crib on Sourland Mountain near Hopewell, N. J. The State of New Jersey had already spent $50,000 searching for him. It had cost Columbia Broadcasting System alone $40,000 to keep the public informed of developments, not to mention newspapers' outlay. Prime development last week was an announcement by three substantial citizens of Norfolk, Va. that they were in communication with the kidnappers...
John Hughes Curtis, a builder of small boats, said that a onetime rumrunner had come to him on March 9 as go-between for the Lindbergh baby-snatchers. Mr. Curtis spent two fruitless days trying to get in touch with Col. Lindbergh, whose house is still flooded by several bags of crank mail daily and constant telephone calls. Having failed to get in touch with the lost child's parents, Mr. Curtis sought out two fellow-townsmen connected with the family: Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know...
...Hopewell, Col. H. Norman Schwartz-kopf of the State Police deflated the triumvirate's connection with the case by announcing: "They visited Colonel Lindbergh on Wednesday night and gave him information which, on being investigated, was found to have no specific significance in this investigation...