Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh: "A singularly human and sensible guy . . . not so shy, either, but annoyed, and rightly so, by all the publicity. . . . I continue to rank him at the very top of real men. The most surprising thing about him, I found, was his technical ability. He is a born engineer...
Carl Rettich gave himself up early last week. With the arrest of the chief and 20-odd henchmen, authorities felt that the solution of the Fall River case was only a beginning. They planned to prosecute Rettich first under the "Lindbergh Law" for enticing Andino Merola across a State line to his death. But first they expected him to tell something about the disappearance in 1933 of his onetime 'legging partner. Danny Walsh, who, rumor said, had been stood in a tub of cement until it dried, then tossed into Narragansett Bay. Perhaps he could explain, too, what happened...
...reconstructed South continued to keep the Negro in his political place. San Francisco burned down; Harry Thaw shot Stanford White ; the 16th, 17th, 18th, 1 9th and 20th Amendments to the Constitution were ratified; Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped; Cordell Hull became Secretary of State. And on April 8, 1935, Delaware's Secretary of State solemnly notified Secretary Hull that Delaware had ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution...
...reservations desk in a Chicago hotel bustled a woman and two men. From the clerk they reserved three seats on the Transcontinental & Western Air plane for New York, bustled away again. Hour later they were back to ask: "Is that the 'Lindbergh Line'?" Told that it was, they indignantly canceled their reservations. Asked TWA's Chicago manager: "Who were they?" Replied the hotel clerk: "Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann and two lawyers...
...Later it was perhaps Doihara who fomented enough "unrest" in Tientsin to excuse the bringing in of Japanese troops who imposed the humiliating Tangku Truce (TIME, June 5, 1933).Today, so great is Spy Chief Doihara's reputation that he can be as modest as Colonels Lawrence and Lindbergh. Toothily last week he smiled: "What have I been doing this year in Peiping, in Tientsin, in Shanghai, in Nanking and here in beautiful Hongkong? Really, gentlemen, I am but a general! What has a general to do in time of peace...