Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh kidnapping case has brought out nothing else it has at least focused attention on two symptons of modern American life: the growing tyranny of the press and increased sub-servience to gangsterism. Both the amount and nature of the publicity given to this kidnapping story would have seemed unbelievable five years ago. And who thought that the man whom America set up as its post-war idol would be forced to acknowledge that under-world characters rather than the regular police force could best help him in his predicament...
Died- Mrs. Matilda Allen Coffin, 51, wife of Howard Earle Coffin, automotive engineer; of heart disease; in Sea Island Beach, Ga. Next day Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover was to have been her guest at Sapeloe Island, famed home of the Coffins, at which have vacationed Calvin Coolidge, Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Turning from this with the incredible swiftness of a mind accustomed to penetrating analogies Mr. Long criticized the Senate as the "coldest place on earth". Then that agile intellect kept to the present state of American crime as illustrated by the disappearance of the Lindbergh baby. With due deliberation the Senator declared that the present situation undoubtedly resulted from persistent violation of the law. In a few short days Huey Lond has made clear what is wrong with America...
Here are a number of celebrities from all important countries except the Orient. The important U. S. figures are all there, from the young Lindbergh to the venerable Holmes, with such curious exceptions as Henry Ford and Henry Lewis Stimson. The European gallery lacks Spain's recent Alfonso, England's George and in fact all other royalty...
...fire which damaged the Eden Musee,- famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...