Word: lindberghism
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...Lindbergh's emotionally aroused irrational behavior should not be condoned by these United States. When these two legitimately hysterical parents unfortunately reverted to their primitive, elemental desires and relegated civilization's sociological structure to the trash heap as unusable lumber and connived, catered, kowtowed, begged, pleaded, and promised anything & everything within and beyond their means to the so-called underworld, if the cowardly machine-gun order returned their child, they trampled respect for law & order into the dust; exposed other citizens' children to the possibility of kidnapping and ridiculed American police protection in the eyes of the world...
...Lindbergh refused to pay ransom; if they backed the State police, Federal agents, private detectives; if they stood behind the powerful press, if they resolved to prosecute the criminals, they would wield such a mighty club that kidnapping would become a rare crime...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was alive, he became 21 months old last week, the fourth week since he was snatched from his crib on Sourland Mountain near Hopewell, N. J. The State of New Jersey had already spent $50,000 searching for him. It had cost Columbia Broadcasting System alone $40,000 to keep the public informed of developments, not to mention newspapers' outlay. Prime development last week was an announcement by three substantial citizens of Norfolk, Va. that they were in communication with the kidnappers...
John Hughes Curtis, a builder of small boats, said that a onetime rumrunner had come to him on March 9 as go-between for the Lindbergh baby-snatchers. Mr. Curtis spent two fruitless days trying to get in touch with Col. Lindbergh, whose house is still flooded by several bags of crank mail daily and constant telephone calls. Having failed to get in touch with the lost child's parents, Mr. Curtis sought out two fellow-townsmen connected with the family: Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know...
...Hopewell, Col. H. Norman Schwartz-kopf of the State Police deflated the triumvirate's connection with the case by announcing: "They visited Colonel Lindbergh on Wednesday night and gave him information which, on being investigated, was found to have no specific significance in this investigation...