Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crawled somewhere. He had not. One more look around the room disclosed muddy footprints, an open windowscreen and a note on the sill below. Exact contents of the note have never been revealed, but if, like most notes of the same kind, it warned against police intervention, Col. Lindbergh brusquely disregarded the warning. He could have had no idea of the overwhelming glare of press and police activity which was shortly to ignite in his remote retreat, providing a possible barrier forever between him and his child, when he summoned officers from Hopewell...
...Press that ignorant gossip whispered that he must be backward, deaf, perhaps defective. But four photographs of Charles Augustus had ever been made public, one of them snapped surreptitiously last summer in Maine when his parents were flying to China. Now there issued forth from Col. Lindbergh's private collection cinema films by the score. These went broadcast through the land by mail, wire, television while enormous headlines splashed the child's name across every U. S. front page day after...
...again about the rich, swift-growing racket of abduction for extortion, helped circulate a new gangland name for kidnappers: snatchers. Also in Chicago, more precisely in Cook County jail where he is waiting a last appeal against an eleven-year Federal sentence, "Scarface Al" Capone interested himself in the Lindbergh case. Offering a $10,000-reward for the baby's safe return, he indignantly remarked: "It's the most outrageous thing I ever heard of! I know how Mrs. Capone and I would feel. . . . If I were out of jail I could be of real assistance...
Clues. At the end of the first six days, heart-wrung Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who expects another child, and her harassed husband had no more evidence as to who had snatched their child than was established in the preliminary examination of their estate...
While crank letters poured into the Lindbergh home by the hundreds, all of which proved inconclusive, there were several tangible pieces of evidence connected with the crime...