Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh of Little Falls, Minn, was in Congress. Like many of his colleagues, he sometimes took his 9-year-old son and namesake on the floor of the House. There he usually entrusted the yellow-haired youngster to his favorite doorkeeper, Sam Foley. The War came and Pacifist Representative Lindbergh was retired to private life and Sam Foley returned to his home in New York's Bronx to study...
Last week Son Lindbergh and Doorkeeper Foley met again under very different circumstances. Col. Lindbergh arrived at a side entrance to the new Bronx County Court House, was whisked upstairs by private elevator to the large office of District Attorney Samuel John Foley. Disguised in a brown cap and smoked glasses, the nation's No. 1 hero sat among a half-dozen detectives while another young man was brought in. He was unshaven, collarless, haggard Bruno Richard Hauptmann, indicted for extortion, suspected of kidnapping and murder. He was posed this way and that, made to walk, talk, sit, stand...
Meantime, in California, Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh shrank from further contact with the crime which had taken their firstborn, said they were "not much interested" in the case. Reluctantly Col. Lindbergh agreed to return to New York this week to be present as the plaintiff when the extortion case of People v. Hauptmann goes to the Grand Jury...
Hottest of hot stories in the U. S. Press was the Lindbergh kidnapping, murder, investigation and last week the arrest of the clam-mouthed Hauptmann (see p. 12). Any publisher would have given a year's profits for a complete scoop on the case. Certain Manhattan dailies even had men permanently assigned to the story, year in, year out. An ambitious Hearstling visited New Jersey State Police headquarters every week on his day off, patiently burrowing an inside track...
More than a week before Hauptmann's arrest, every reporter at New York Police headquarters knew the Lindbergh case was "red hot" in the Yorkville section of the city. To safeguard the confidence, they did not even notify their offices...