Word: lindberghism
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...last person known to have seen 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was his nurse, a dark-haired, light footed little Scotch girl of 26 named Betty Gow. Nurse Gow immigrated to the U. S in 1928, has been in the Lindberghs' employ over a year. At approximately 8:30 o'clock one evening last week she went to his nursery. It is on the second floor southeast corner, of the home which Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh completed last autum three miles north of Hopewell, ten miles north of Princeton, on a wild, lonely stretch of high ground called Sourland...
Arthur Conan Doyle could not have conceived a more fantastic story than that of the Lindbergh kidnapping. In spite of his convincing style, few would have believed that a criminal, regardless of his genius, could from a prison cell manoeuver a kidnapping so that, as the hero of the rescue, he might secure his freedom. The most recent developments of the Lindbergh case put such a story well within the realms of possibility...
Whether or not the naming of two gansters to aid in this return will prove to be the most efficacious method remains to be seen. The irony of the situation is obvious enough. It is only natural that Colonel Lindbergh should employ all possible means and, granting conditions in America, the two New York gunmen seem best able to achieve results. Certainly the inability of the local police to deal with the crime has been demonstrated and there are in the case many good arguments for a national police force. But what is most indicative of the present trend...
...Lindbergh kidnapping case has brought out nothing else it has at least focused attention on two symptons of modern American life: the growing tyranny of the press and increased sub-servience to gangsterism. Both the amount and nature of the publicity given to this kidnapping story would have seemed unbelievable five years ago. And who thought that the man whom America set up as its post-war idol would be forced to acknowledge that under-world characters rather than the regular police force could best help him in his predicament...
...freedom of the press is fast curtailing the freedom of the individual. Personal details, instead of being secondary material, have become the real news of the day. Conventionality is almost prescribed since every eccentricity, everything that is individual about a man, is unearthed and broadcast by the press, Lindbergh has long been a case in point, now, having moved into a secluded place to avoid the public spotlight, he is again subject to the most merciless publicity, Every "angle" is played up; every drop of human interest must be squeezed out of the story into the newspapers. And in cynical...