Word: lindberghism
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...make his discovery, Dr. Wilson rigged up a perfusion pump analogous to the artificial heart which Charles Augustus Lindbergh designed for his admiring friend Dr. Alexis Carrel. To his pump Dr. Wilson hitched rabbit kidney after rabbit kidney, and through them perfused artificial blood composed of salt water, red corpuscles from beef blood and oxygen. Upon adding potassium cyanide, which displaces oxygen, Dr. Wilson through his microscope could see oxygen-starved mitochondria crumble while cells of the kidneys, and finally the entire kidneys died...
...could not have repudiated more strikingly the explanation which he gave for postponing the execution last month. Then in justifying his action he said, "I . . . share with hundreds of thousands of our people the doubt as to the value of the evidence that placed (Hauptmann) in the Lindbergh nursery on the night of the crime . . ." Although he has at the present time stronger doubts than ever, he does not intend to defer the execution again...
Among th 134 votes which favored other candidates were ten cast for Al Smith, six for ex-Governor Winant of New Hampshire, three for both Ogden Mills and Governor Hoffman, of Lindbergh kidnapping fame...
...vengeful public. Governor Hoffman directed the State Police "to continue their search for any other person or persons involved in the crime"; explained his action thus: "I ... share with hundreds of thousands of our people the doubt as to the value of the evidence that placed [Hauptmann] in the Lindbergh nursery on the night of the crime...
...Bruno Richard Hauptmann was last week granted a 30-day reprieve by New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. In effect the stay given by the portly young Republican will postpone for at least two months the execution of the alien carpenter for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...