Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to a recent request that accounts of all Lindbergh baby dreams be forwarded to it, the Harvard Psychological Clinic received 25 letters in yesterday's mail. The clinic hopes to obtain data on the subconscious impressions of a publicized event affecting the emotions...
Federal Law. There are many U. S. children whose parents could afford to pay rich ransom for their return were they kidnapped. But no kidnappee in the land could arouse so much public indignation against the kidnapping racket as Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Lost Baby." New York citizens recalled afresh, last week, their city's most famed recent baby abduction, that of Billy Gaffney, snatched from his home in Brooklyn in 1927 and never returned. Having sent a message of condolence to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, scrawny, pathetic Mrs. Gaffney, wife of a chauffeur, mournfully predicted to reporters: ''She'll cry for him nights; she'll think about him days as she goes around the house, and she'll cry afresh when the new baby is laid in her arms, for he'll make her think again of the lost baby...
...Harvard psychological clinic has issued a request that all dreams concerning the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., be reported in writing to H. L. Stevens at the clinic, 64 Plympton Street. In the report, persons who dream of the missing child are asked to include their age and sex and, if they are parents, the age and sex of their children...
...psychologists explained that they had no hope of solving the mystery by analysis of dreams, but are solely interested in collecting data on interesting phonomena. A great deal of valuable scientific information was added to the knowledge of sleeping experience when the clinic collected dreams about Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight. The psychologists hope to add to their material stories of dreams experienced by people all over the country following the disappearance of the child...