Word: lindberghism
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Died. Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, 78, onetime New Jersey Supreme Court Justice; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A hater of capital punishment, he nevertheless sentenced Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electric chair for the Lindbergh kidnapping...
...reporter when he helped convict a mild-mannered but bigamous itinerant preacher who had killed his extra wife, painstakingly disjointed her body and buried each piece separately. On the crest of this achievement, Griffin sailed for France, got a job on the Paris Times, was at Le Bourget when Lindbergh landed...
...Other non-Germans who have received various classes of Order of the German Eagle: Benito Mussolini, General Francisco Franco, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines. Watson sent his back...
Engineer Mencken begins with Arthur Gooch, hanged in 1936 for violation of the Lindbergh kidnapping law, and works back along the rope to the Haymarket anarchists; to Charles Julius Guiteau, who shot President Garfield; to the Molly Maguires, the Irish miners who terrorized the Pennsylvania coal fields; to John Wilkes Booth's accomplices, including Mary Surratt, first woman ever hanged in the U.S. He also includes British body-snatcher William Burke, who added a wrinkle to the illicit business of selling bodies for medical dissection by creating his own corpses, and added a verb to the English language...
...Joseph M. Patterson, publisher, the New York Daily News. 7) Congressman Martin Dies of Texas. 8) William Randolph Hearst. 9) The editors of the Brooklyn Tablet, Coughlin-supporting weekly. 10) Father Edward Lodge Curran, of Brooklyn, also a Coughlin supporter. 11) Senator Robert R. Reynolds. 12) Charles A. Lindbergh...