Word: lindberghism
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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh of Little Falls, Minn, was in Congress. Like many of his colleagues, he sometimes took his 9-year-old son and namesake on the floor of the House. There he usually entrusted the yellow-haired youngster to his favorite doorkeeper, Sam Foley. The War came and Pacifist Representative Lindbergh was retired to private life and Sam Foley returned to his home in New York's Bronx to study...
...question which was still puzzling police last week was whether or not the most widely sought criminal in U. S. history had had an accomplice. The Department of Justice was inclined to think the Lindbergh kidnapping was a one-man job. But a "mystery woman" was said to be sought as well as a "mystery man" whom Col. Lindbergh had seen with a handkerchief over his face near The Bronx cemetery the night the ransom was passed. Also implicated was the brokerage house with which Hauptmann was said to have a $25,000 account...
Meantime, in California, Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh shrank from further contact with the crime which had taken their firstborn, said they were "not much interested" in the case. Reluctantly Col. Lindbergh agreed to return to New York this week to be present as the plaintiff when the extortion case of People v. Hauptmann goes to the Grand Jury...
Hottest of hot stories in the U. S. Press was the Lindbergh kidnapping, murder, investigation and last week the arrest of the clam-mouthed Hauptmann (see p. 12). Any publisher would have given a year's profits for a complete scoop on the case. Certain Manhattan dailies even had men permanently assigned to the story, year in, year out. An ambitious Hearstling visited New Jersey State Police headquarters every week on his day off, patiently burrowing an inside track...
More than a week before Hauptmann's arrest, every reporter at New York Police headquarters knew the Lindbergh case was "red hot" in the Yorkville section of the city. To safeguard the confidence, they did not even notify their offices...