Word: lindberghism
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Died. Violet Sharpe, 28, of Tupps Clump, England, maidservant in the home of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow; by her own hand (cyanide); in Englewood, N. J. She had been sharply questioned by police investigating the kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. She seemed timid, reticent. Just before she was to be questioned further regarding one Ernest Brinkert. taximan of White Plains, N. Y., with whom the police were led to believe she went riding on the night of March 1, Maid Sharpe took her life, apparently in a fit of nerves. Later the police were forced to exonerate not only...
Means heard himself called a "slippery, slimy racketeer" in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, was found guilty of larceny of $104,000 from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean in his fantastic plan to recover Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...author's idea that it was a temporary aberration which has passed now. He traces the development of romance in the common man's life through the rise of the hero-worship mania but concludes that it is dying out--the book was written before the spectacle of the Lindbergh baby incident...
Salvatore ("Salvy") Spitale, engaged by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh as an underworld go-between during the kidnap negotiations, was arrested in a Manhattan speakeasy for carrying a loaded pistol, discharged next day because he had a permit from a rural county...
Colyumist Jay Elmer House of the New York Evening Post last week received from a correspondent in Trieste, a clipping from the Ultime Notizie. A headline translated, read: "New Phase in the Lindbergh Drama: Curtis Is About to Be Arrested." From beneath the headline stared a photograph of Vice President Charles Curtis...