Word: wendell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accompanied by her three-year-old son Mannfried, Anna Hauptmann appeared before the Kings County (N. Y.) grand jury to testify secretly about the actions of New Jersey Detective Ellis H. Parker and his son, now under indictment for the kidnapping of Paul H. Wendel, whose last-minute "confession" delayed Bruno Richard Hauptmann's execution...
...ousted board of Regents are some of France's best financial brains, including François de Wendel (coal, steel, munitions), the Marquis de Vogüe (Suez Canal Co.. chemicals). President René Duchemin of the French Manufacturers' Association, Robert Darblay (paper), Louis Blanc (casinos) and Ernest Mallet, current representative of a banking family which has had a member on the board since the Bank's foundation, 136 years ago. To gether the old Regents are worth probably 7,000,000,000 francs...
After year and a half of vicious newspaper opposition, sales tax resentment, Lindbergh-Hauptmann-Wendel-Schwarzkopf misrepresentations, disappointed job seekers and political monkey-wrench-throwing of Everett Colby et al., my total vote was well within 10% of the total vote I polled in the Gubernatorial primary of 1934. Believe it or not, I consider the results of May 19 primary, 1936, as most satisfying of 15 successive political victories...
When this amazing news broke, Governor Hoffman vehemently announced that he had known nothing about the Wendel confession. Day before Hauptmann's scheduled execution he fought vainly, in a long, closed session, to persuade the Court of Pardons to commute the prisoner's sentence. Next day, declaring the Wendel confession "incredible," Justice Thomas W. Trenchard refused to stay the execution pending its investigation. Meantime the Mercer County Grand Jury headed by one Allyne Freeman, longtime Republican office-seeker and supposed good friend of Governor Hoffman, was weighing the charge of murder against Wendel...
Princeton Protest. Next day Governor Hoffman cautiously admitted that he had known about the Wendel matter for some time. While New York and New Jersey police and U. S. Department of Justice agents moved to investigate Wendel's story that he had been kidnapped and tortured, public outrage boiled over. "IMPEACH HOFFMAN," screamed the Trenton Evening Times in a front-page editorial. "It is up to every citizen," roared this Independent sheet, "to demand Hoffman's impeachment and the jailing of all the political mobsters who are obstructing justice and defaming the name of the State...