Word: lindberghism
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Time for Action. Australia was swept by the kind of outrage that followed the 1932 Lindbergh kidnaping in the U.S. "This case." said the Sydney Daily Telegraph, "must never be closed until the killers are behind bars or the govern ment puts into action - on the gallows - the overwhelming inclinations of the people." New South Wales's Labor government is dead set against capital punishment, but at week's end Premier Heffron promised to consider "drastic increases" in the state's maximum kidnaping penalty of ten years. Public pressure was building up for Australia's national...
...trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40." On the forthcoming election: "It's accusation time in Normalcy. And in spite of the nominations, my mother is voting for Lindbergh." On martinis: "One is all right, two is too many, three is not enough...
...away-from-home to two generations of aviators, whose frame cottage opposite the air-training school on the University of California's Berkeley campus was known as "The Hangar" by thousands of visiting airmen, including Hap Arnold (who dubbed it "the first U.S.O."), Billy Mitchell, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Eddie Rickenbacker from 1915 until 1950; of a stroke; in Washington...
Died. Colonel Henry Breckinridge, 73, onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, markedly independent Democrat and Manhattan lawyer, who was Charles A. Lindbergh's counsel and unsuccessful intermediary after the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Leaving Kentucky at 27 to join Woodrow Wilson's Administration. Breckinridge fought hard to improve the pitifully weak U.S. Army, resigned when he felt that he had failed, and subsequently saw action in France during World War I. Later, he broke ranks to run against F.D.R. in four presidential state primaries in 1936, as a protest against...
...Identity. A newsman who believed that anyone would tell anyone anything over a telephone, Reutlinger got the first interview with Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who delivered the Dionne quintuplets, by calling long distance to Callandar, Ont. After the Lindbergh kidnaping, Reutlinger was the first newsman to reach Colonel Lindbergh in Hopewell, N.J.- by long distance telephone. But he persistently denied a rumor that he once posed as President Harding - over the phone, of course - to gain access to some information he wanted from the White House: "I believe in honest journalism," he said rather injuredly...