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President Roosevelt, who rode fast & free in Massachusetts, was opposed in Pennsylvania by Colonel Henry Breckinridge of Manhattan, Lindbergh lawyer and onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, who has offered himself as a rallying post for anti-New Deal Democrats. Preliminary result: Roosevelt, 800,000; Breckinridge...
...strategical standpoint the promotion of an American transatlantic airline as a war-defensive measure is highly desirable. An English historian once remarked, "On the day that Bleriot flew the English Channel England became a continental nation." It might be said with equal truth that the day Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Atlantic Ocean, the United States became a European power. Few events in aeronautical history are more strikingly significant than the landing of a whole squadron of Italian planes under the command of General Italo Balbo in the very heart of America at Chicago three years ago. If the United...
...agents de police, 'femme enceinte,' which means, 'woman with child,' and the agent de police would stop all the trolley-cars and autos until Papa got by." This system broke down, however, the night the Abbes motored out to Le Bourget to see Lindbergh land. "Then Mamma suddenly got some pains in her belly and Papa and Aigner got sweat on their heads because they couldn't get out of the car with Mamma, and even if Papa yelled 'femme enceinte' it wouldn't do any good, because all the cars were...
Wendel. At this point the proceedings dipped into pure fantasy. Fortnight ago members of New Jersey's Court of Pardons mysteriously received copies of a 25-page "confession" to the Lindbergh kidnapping signed by one Paul H. Wendel, a 50-year-old Trenton lawyer who was disbarred in 1920 after conviction of perjury, later voluntarily spent three weeks under observation in an insane asylum, was charged in 1931 with embezzlement and fraud but escaped trial. Attorney General Wilentz got a copy of the confession, learned that Wendel was being held under guard in a State colony for mental defectives...
Harold ("Boake"') Carter was an obscure news commentator for Philadelphia's Station WCAU when he went to Hopewell, N. J. in March 1932 to broadcast descriptions of the frantic search for the Lindbergh baby's kidnapper. Four years later, with the kidnapper awaiting death at Trenton (see p. 20), Broadcaster Boake Carter and his brash news comments had grown to be something of a national institution...