Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consorting with the ex-Mayor had hired a dozen boats on which to welcome him home. The Press, always charmed by the slick little politician whose neat phrases helped them in making a living, was represented by a turn-out of reporters surpassed only by that given Charles Lindbergh and Edward of Wales. And, inexplicably, John J. Dunnigan, leader of the Democratic majority in the State Senate, calmly holding his political life in his hands, climbed aboard the Manhattan. It was he who took Jimmy Walker, natty as ever in a pinstriped, pinchback suit, out of the clutches...
...Condon, famed for his part in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, neither drinks, smokes nor swears. He needed no stimulation to wear a U. S. flag on his coat lapel, explain to the Wisconsin stranger that he felt deeply sorry for Convict Bruno Hauptmann...
...Inescapable Evidence." In Trenton, New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals handed down its decision in the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. near Hopewell in March 1932, was caught with ransom money in The Bronx in September 1934, was convicted and sentenced to death at Flemington in February 1935. Unanimously the 13 voting members of New Jersey's highest court upheld the trial court on all 16 contested points of law, declared that the German carpenter's conviction was "one to which the evidence inescapably led." In a forlorn...
Said Father Lindbergh at the Glenn L. Martin airplane factory in Baltimore: "No comment...
...Chicago Cubs were swept from the nation's headlines to make way for War. In the heart of Ethiopia, in a city populated by 70,000 blackamoors, some 68 of the world's crack newsmen were feverishly at work reporting the biggest story since Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was snatched from his crib in Hopewell...