Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kidnapper Gooch and a pal did what they did to thwart arrest for a series of robberies. In a scuffle preceding the abduction one of the sheriffs was injured in the leg, thus enabling the jury at Gooch's trial to recommend the death penalty under the Lindbergh Law. Gooch was executed...
Within a few hours every peon in the Pereyra Iraolas' neighborhood was stuttering out answers to police, every estancia gate and fence in rich Buenos Aires province was carefully watched. If Father Pereyra Iraola is no such popular hero as Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Senator Santamarina is nevertheless politically potent, and his brother Enrique, who heads the great Banco de la Nacion, is extremely rich. Also, a great-uncle of the kidnapped child is Carlos M. Noel, president of Argentina's Chamber of Deputies...
Hopping off after a week's sightseeing in Rome, Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh paused at Palermo, Sicily, stopped at Tripoli to visit Governor-General Italo Balbo, flew on to Cairo...
...Lympne, England Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh zoomed away in their new orange & black monoplane Miles Hawk, turned up few hours later in Rome...
Lately cited for contempt of court for failing to pay his wife back alimony, Edward J. Reilly, chief defense lawyer for Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, was committed to the Brooklyn State Hospital for the Insane on petition of his mother...