Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until the Lindbergh case, most famed U. S. kidnapping was that of 4-year-old Charlie Ross who disappeared from his father's Germantown, Pa. home July 1, 1874 and has not appeared since. Last September memories of the original Charlie Ross were ironically revived when an elderly, well-to-do Chicago greeting card manufacturer was kidnapped on his way home from a dinner party, held for a $50,000 ransom which his wife promptly paid. The greeting card manufacturer's name was Charles Ross...
Death sentence for kidnappers, according to the "Lindbergh Law" is left to the discretion of the jury. Faced with a case which, factually at least, seemed as complete as the kidnapping of the first Charles Ross was the reverse, the jury took only an hour and 30 minutes to decide that Lumberjack Seadlund had earned...
...President named a new head of the Maritime Commission: Rear Admiral Emory S. ("Jerry") Land-once a famed footballer at Annapolis, now 59-who has served on the Commission for one year, is an expert on naval construction and an air-minded (but distant) cousin of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...call for bids on Yankee Clippers-airplanes three times larger than any constructed in the United States-was issued by the Pan American Airways shortly after the return to the United States of its distinguished technical adviser (1 Roscoe Turner, 2 Charles A. Lindbergh, 3 Donald Douglas, 4 Fred D. Fagg, 5 Clarence Chamberlain...
...Steve Brodie, Boss Tweed, Commodore Vanderbilt and Tony Pastor. John L. Sullivan used to hock his diamond-studded championship belt at Simpson's for $400. Evalyn Walsh McLean pawned her Hope Diamond there to get the $100,000 Gaston Means swindled from her as ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The present William Simpson, much harassed by squabbles in the business, recently got a new slant from the play You Can't Take It With You. Last week William Simpson decided to leave pawnbroking, try merchandising a cleaning fluid Simpson's has always used. The new Simpson...