Word: lindberghism
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...Kidnapper Gooch and a pal did what they did to thwart arrest for a series of robberies. In a scuffle preceding the abduction one of the sheriffs was injured in the leg, thus enabling the jury at Gooch's trial to recommend the death penalty under the Lindbergh Law. Gooch was executed...
Potency of the Lindbergh Law depends on Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, interpretations of which have been so notoriously contradictory. Currently in the Illinois Law Review a smart young Louisiana State University law professor named Thomas A. Cowan licks his legal chops in a fancifully-written article which shows just how loose has been the courts' usage of this Constututional phrase, "commerce . . . among the several States." Crux of Lawyer Cowan's thesis is that the U. S. Supreme Court has been willing to expand the meaning of "interstate commerce" when a law involves "morals...
...Oscar Snatch, a candidate for the senior class presidency of Siwash College, situated ten miles from a State line, kidnapped his rival, one Jeremiah Kelly, held him for seven days prior to the election. According to Candidate Snatch's story at his trial, after being indicted under the Lindbergh Law, he seized Candidate Kelly, bundled him into a darkened automobile and drove toward the State line but did not cross it. In the preliminary scuffle Jeremiah Kelly tripped & fell trying to get away, broke a leg. Oscar Snatch was convicted on the ground that he had kidnapped his rival...
...Kidnapping (Lindbergh Law), white slavery (Mann Act), transporting stolen automobiles (Dyer...
Visiting a Parliament of Religions in Calcutta while his monoplane underwent repairs at Nagpur, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh heard himself compared by Indian Poetess Sarojini Naidu to Buddha, Galileo and "other spiritual figures of the world," flushed scarlet...