Word: lindberghism
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...indefinitely, with Senator David Reed whose scalp was the biggest snagged by Franklin Roosevelt in the election, with Schoolman William A. Wirt who found a Red conspiracy in the Brain Trust; with Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds who made peace between financiers and the White House; with Airman Charles Augustus Lindbergh who protested against airmail cancellations; with others & others...
...once the prosecutor of Hunterdon County, where Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. disappeared from his Hopewell home on the night of March 1, 1932, declared that somebody was tampering with prospective jurors before whom Bruno Richard Hauptmann will be tried for Baby Lindbergh's murder at Flemington this week...
Although she had apparently made full use of all available official documents in the Lindbergh case in preparing her pamphlet, which was written in 1932, long before Hauptmann was arrested, Mrs. Spencer laughingly told reporters: "The whole thing was a satire, written and dictated by me for my own amusement merely to poke fun at the asininity of our police and court system as a whole. . . . As to the charge of the prosecutor that it was mailed to every one on the jury panel, all I can say is that I never heard of the panel. I didn...
Meantime, Boatbuilder John H. Curtis and Sheriff John H. Curtiss made their bits of pre-trial news. Shortly after the baby disappeared, Mr. Curtis went up from Norfolk, Va. to tell Col. Lindbergh that he was in touch with the kidnappers. When the child's body was found, Curtis renounced his story, was convicted of obstructing justice. He was just barely kept out of jail by Lawyer W. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington. In the past two years he and Lawyer Fisher have grown to be fast friends. Flabbergasted was Friend Fisher, now an associate in Hauptmann's defense...
Flemington, N. J., Jan. 2--Bruno Richard Hauptmann came face to face with Charles A. Lindbergh in the stuffy, postage stamp courthouse where he went on trial for the murder of a baby that also bore the name of Charles A. Lindbergh...