Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruno Richard Hauptmann was last week granted a 30-day reprieve by New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. In effect the stay given by the portly young Republican will postpone for at least two months the execution of the alien carpenter for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...recent flight of Dr. John F. Condon, Bronx educator and famous go-between throughout the Lindbergh case, is highly significant. Of especial interest is the fact that, like Colonel Lindbergh, Condon has chosen to fade from the picture just as national excitement and feeling has reached a fever pitch over the impending execution of Hauptmann. In the case of the Lindbergh family one may understand their desire to wait until the whole affair has blown over before returning to the scene. Their presence here would but aggravate a situation already charged with hysteria and fanned to white heat...
None came. Acting as official spokesman, a London banker friend of the Lindberghs announced that they were in England on a six-month immigration permit, had come solely for ''peace " rest.'' Charles, Anne and small Jon Lindbergh kept to their three-room suite, behind locked doors guarded by a private detective. Not even their waiter was permitted to see them: he carried a key to their sitting-room, left food there while the beleaguered family lurked in their bedrooms...
...London Daily Mirror, Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England," printed an editorial entitled "Leave Them Alone." Simultaneously he covered his front page with Lindbergh news supplied by his watchful reporters...
...fourth day, British newshawks had sullenly abandoned their siege and Lindbergh news in the British Press had dwindled to a trickle. Only U. S. correspondents were still prowling about when Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh bundled Jon out the hotel servants' entrance and into a waiting limousine, sped off with Mrs. Lindbergh's brother-in-law. Aubrey Neil Morgan, toward the home of his father near Cardiff, Wales. A few newshawks gave chase in a taxicab, soon lost the trail. Speeding to Cardiff by train, they found all entrances to the Morgan estate guarded, all servants pledged to silence...