Word: lindberghism
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...When President Hoover received the news from Hopewell, N. J. (see p. 12), he summoned a secretary, dictated the following statement for the Press: "I have directed the law enforcement agencies and the several secret services of the Federal Government to make the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby a live and never-to-be-forgotten case, never to be relaxed until these criminals are implacably brought to justice...
...Negro from Marshall's Corner N.J. had not decided to get out of his truck and relieve himself in the woods a mile from Hopewell last week, a half-dozen accredited negotiators and a hemisphere's police would still be looking for kidnapped, murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Orville Wilson. It was a human skull. On it and nearby were wisps of yellow hair. Wilson hopped in the truck and made for Hopewell, where he found Charley Williams, one of Hopewell's two policemen, in a barber's chair. To him Wilson babbled their discovery of the Lindbergh baby. Policeman Williams notified the State Police and together they went back to the hillside spot, visible on a clear day from the Lindbergh home on Sourland Mountain, five miles away...
...newspapermen had been hurriedly summoned from Trenton and Hopewell for the official announcement in the Lindbergh garage. The discovery made hushed after-dinner talk for most U.S. citizens, but the child's father did not learn about it until nine hours after the body was found. It came to him by radio. Stirred on by John Hughes Curtis, charter member of the Norfolk, Va. triumvirate whose boat-building activities have placed him in contact with rum runners, Col. Lindbergh was groping hopelessly about the dark waters off Cape May, N. J.?still trying to buy his child back from...
...Crime, Disarmament Conferences, Gandhi, Mussolini, Hoover. Hitler, the Japanese at Shanghai. Its grandiose title is meaningless and misleading. The picture is improved by its lack of a theme; the pleasure of watching it is analogous to that of reading the headlines of old newspapers. Good shots: Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. looking out of his window; Mahatma Gandhi with one finger on his nose; Mrs. Charles H. Sabin denouncing Prohibition; Manhattan police riding their horses into a crowd of Communists; an old scared Chinaman stooping to retrieve his bundle from a Shanghai gutter; Congressman La Guardia delivering an oration...