Word: lindberghism
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...hypnotist and was soon able to influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity for Oursler and Mr. Macfadden. . . . "I feel sure that it was Mr. Oursler's intention, with his great influence over Mr. Macfadden-which at times borders on hypnotism-to persuade Mr. Macfadden to pay any large or fabulous reward...
...teletype machine is ready to carry his commands to editorial underlings in Manhattan. Last year the Falmouth teletype flashed to Liberty one of Editor Oursler's decisions : to publish the "inside story" of Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the garrulous Bronx schoolmaster who projected himself into the Lindbergh kidnapping case and helped Colonel Lindbergh get rid of $50,000 to no avail. A guest at West Falmouth, "Jafsie" had convinced Editor Oursler, who candidly admits his magazine function is primarily to entertain the publie, that he had "new material" to reveal...
...Jafsie" articles ran their course, pleased Liberty's public, were soon forgotten. Last fortnight, a strange reverberation of Editor Oursler's interest in the Lindbergh case was heard when it was revealed that he had filed suit against Mrs. Mary Macfadden, divorced wife of Publisher Macfadden (and mother of his five daughters), for allegedly accusing him not merely of making editorial capital of the case, but of actually conspiring to steal the Lindbergh child. Asking $150,000 for libel, Mr. Oursler announced that this fantastic charge was contained in a long rigmarole which Mrs. Macfadden allegedly wrote...
...editor the Capitol Daily has a thorough professional in Sidney Whipple, Dartmouth graduate and United Press's expert on the Lindbergh kidnapping...
Promised he would be arrested daily for vagrancy as long as he remained in Miami, Salvatore Spitale, celebrated underworld intermediary of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, left town within 48 hours, claiming his departure was occasioned not by the police but by the embarrassment the publicity was causing his young children in Manhattan schools...