Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death Revealed. Phoebe Elsie Whately, 51, cook and housekeeper in the Sourland Mountain home of Colone Charles Augustus Lindbergh when Charles Jr. was kidnapped; of cancer, last January; in Birmingham, England. Cook Whately's husband Ollie, the Lindberghs butler, died...
...does not regret paying $4,000 for her pink satin sheets because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never stop. . . . Fight...
George Santayana, "The Last Puritan"; John Gunther, "Inside Europe"; Negley Farson, "The Way of the Transgressor"; Alexis Carrel, "Man the Unknown"; Anne Lindbergh, "North to the Orient"; Walter Duranty, "I Write as I Please"; P. G. Wodehouse, "The Bodkins...
...report to Schwarzkopf, shortly after the theft, Morrow described the missing articles as a letter from his mother describing the itinerary of the Lindbergh trip to England, a picture of the Lindbergh family, and several personal letters including one from an attorney regarding his income...
...store" in St. Louis in 1910, accepted bets on politics, horse-racing, baseball, boxing. The first to make a future book on the Kentucky Derby, he lost $74,000 on the 1924 race, sold everything to pay it off in full. He quoted odds of 25-to-1 that Lindbergh would not fly the Atlantic, could get few to take them. His wife Ida will take his place at the cigar stand behind which he once spouted: "Good women don't gamble...