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...Lindbergh Case ended on Sept. 19, 1934 when Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested in The Bronx, N. Y. for possession of Lindbergh ransom bills. The Hauptmann Case ended in Trenton, N. J. last week when Hauptmann paid with his life for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (see p. 18). When and how the Hoffman Case would end, no man knew last week, but the political life of New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was indisputably at stake...
Public criticism of Governor Hoffman's behavior was touched off late in December by the departure of Colonel Lindbergh & family for England (TIME, Jan. 6). At once a large section of the nation's Press hotly blamed the New Jersey Governor for driving the No. 1 U. S. hero into exile. One of its Democratic members demanded that New Jersey's Legislature investigate the Governor's actions. The Legislature, Republican-controlled, did nothing...
...Hauptmann had-been framed. Governor Hoffman impugned the credibility of the chief state witnesses at the Hauptmann trial. Last fortnight he took a PWA wood expert to Hauptmann's home in The Bronx, emerged after several hours to announce that the expert doubted whether "Rail 16" in the Lindbergh kidnap ladder had actually come from the carpenter's attic. "Nonsensical!" cried Attorney General Wilentz. '"Outrageous...
...articles on cooking and home decoration. She published helpful hints for cultivators of small, suburban gardens. She went into the details of furnishing a family camp. Housewives were instructed on combining a guest room and study,were told what an espalier fruit tree is and how unpretentious Anne Morrow Lindbergh's aerial wardrobe contains one pair of shoes "suitable to wear at balls and dinners, and also at teas and receptions and also for semi-sport dresses and also for bedroom slippers." At all times Mrs. Austin keeps in mind the principle that most readers of homemaking magazines want...
Each major U.S. airline has some exclusive quality to boast about. TWA calls itself the "Lindbergh Line." American brags it is "the largest airline in the U.S." United is proud of carrying more passengers, mail and express than any other airline in the world. Last week United had something else to be proud of: Its statement for 1935 showed that it almost made some money...