Word: lindberghism
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Snatch. The Lindbergh family's movements during the several hours preceding the kidnapping could be nailed down finally. On the evening of March 1, Col. Lindbergh, having overlooked a speaking engagement in Manhattan, arrived home within a few minutes of 8 p. m. It was a Tuesday, the first time the Lindberghs had remained beyond a week-end at their new, square-faced home, ten miles north of Princeton, since it was completed last autumn. The Lindberghs ate dinner and within a very few minutes of 9 p. m. Col. Lindbergh sat down at a desk in his living room...
...under the nursery window. They were muffled by socks, rags or moccasins. Those closest to the inquiry believe that one man climbed into the nursery, handed the baby to the other at the top of the ladder. The tracks led off across a field toward the south of the Lindbergh property, in the opposite direction from the main entrance. They stopped at a road where the abductors must have boarded their automobile. That roadside spot was as far as any known person had definitely trailed the Lindbergh baby up to last week. But the search fanned...
Servants in the Lindbergh home were, of course, immediately examined. They were Oliver Wheatley, the English butler, and his wife and Betty Gow, 26, who immigrated from Scotland four years ago and had been with the Lindberghs more than a year. Scotland Yard double-checked their records abroad. The New Jersey Police exonerated them publicly. Nurse Gow might still be implicated, for Major Charles Schoeffel went to England a month after the abduction on a mission whose nature was not explained. And it was Nurse Gow who brought Henrik Finn ("Red") Johnsen into the case...
Underworld. On the fourth night after their baby's disappearance the Lindberghs, whose legal adviser is Col. Henry Breckinridge, Wilsonian Assistant Secretary of War, descended suddenly and startlingly to the underworld for assistance. The designation by the nation's hero and the daughter of a onetime Ambassador, of Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, two Manhattan 'leggers, to be their accredited agents was widely viewed as a desperate admission that the nation's police system had knuckled under to the nation's criminals. It was at this point that prominent gangsters began trying to enter the case in pursuit of either...
...Another character with underworld connections flashed across the horizon of the Lindbergh case during its first fortnight. He was swart, Semitic Morris Rosner, one-time Government operative. Congresswoman Ruth Pratt of New York was supposed to have been one of his sponsors. Mr. Rosner's connection with the case, however, paled into obscurity when the three Norfolkers came on the scene during the last week of March...