Word: lindberghism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...watched and listened to a brawny scientist from the Wisconsin woods. From the witness stand Arthur Koehler, head of the Federal Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, was delivering a three-hour illustrated lecture on wood. Carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German stowaway accused of kidnapping and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., paid close attention because his life was at stake. Carpenter Liscom Case, Juror No.11, listened and looked carefully because he knew that the other jurors would respect his judgment on a vital aspect of the case when the time came to weigh Hauptmann's fate...
...John Francis ("Jafsie") Condon, 74, thrice pointed to Defendant Hauptmann, thrice declared, "John [with whom he had negotiated and to whom he had given $50,000 for the Lindbergh baby's return] is Bruno Richard Hauptmann...
...Three State troopers identified a ladder as the one which left imprints below the nursery window, was subsequently found some 70 ft. from the Lindbergh house...
...Henry Breckinridge, Lindbergh friend and lawyer, helped dissipate the defense's insinuations that "Jafsie" Condon was criminally embroiled in the case when he testified that that old Bronx schoolteacher had been opposed from the start to giving ransom without first seeing the child...
...easily the world's No. 1 airwoman. Kansas-born daughter of a Los Angeles attorney, independently rich since childhood, she took her first airplane ride with Frank Hawks in 1920, was the first woman to get an international pilot's license. Because she looked like Lindbergh and knew how to fly, she was chosen to accompany Louis Gordon and the late Wilmer Stultz on their transatlantic flight in 1928. Real fame came to her in 1932 when she flew the Atlantic solo on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's Paris flight. Since then, as an airline executive...