Word: lindberghism
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...been superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn. His new appointment fills the post left vacant by Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, who died last month of pneumonia, after overtaxing his strength by directing, from his bed, the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby...
...smile on his dimpled face, listening to his third sentence to Federal prison. For duping rich Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, estranged wife of the former publisher of the Washington Post and publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer, out of $100,000 on the pretext that he could find the Lindbergh baby (TIME, May 16), Rascal Means was given ten years imprisonment. For duping her out of $4,000 expense money he got another five years. The terms were not to run concurrently...
...shady part in the Harding regime and wrote an audacious book about it, said Judge James M. Proctor: "The verdict reveals that the defendant capitalized not only on the sweetest and tenderest emotions of the human heart, but also on the basest in his clever and adroit plan. The Lindbergh case brought out all the best in the hearts of men, but also gave the opportunity to some to display the weakness and wickedness of human nature...
...United States in two words," declared Premier Benito Mussolini last week to a correspondent of Baron Beaverbrook's enterprising London Daily Express. While the Englishman scribbled, Il Duce continued: "The two words are Prohibition and Lindbergh! . . . Dry America will never find herself. She must go Wet to find herself! In the meantime Europe is drifting toward disaster and Bolshevization...
...Reporter Miller interviews famous transients ("Slim" Lindbergh, Herbert Hoover, Babe Ruth et al.), how the silvery grunion come out of the sea with the spring tides to dance on their tails on the beach (TIME, May 9) are among other waterfront marvels. One moonlit night, when he was lying on a solitary beach, a baby sea lion came and nestled beside him for warmth and company. An hour they lay, then Reporter Miller trudged off to work, followed by the baby sea lion's lustrous, wondering eyes...