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...their next and most desperate move, Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh descended to the underworld. On the fourth night following their baby's disappearance they issued a signed statement, photostated copies of which were published in the nation's Press, as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Snatchers on Sourland Mt. | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...please the court," Lawyer Jeffries addressed the vacant bench, "I move dismissal on grounds of illegal search and seizure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Crazy Business | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

Last week Alfred Emanuel Smith made his first open move to advance what was widely supposed to be his passive candidacy for the presidential nomination. To secure Smith-pledged convention delegates in Massachusetts where a candidate's written consent must be obtained, he gave his power of attorney to Chairman Frank J. Donahue of the Democratic State Committee. Chairman Donahue will now select a slate of Brown Derby delegates for the Massachusetts primaries in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Democrats | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry began the move for voluntary retrenchments last week by pruning his $15,000 salary 10%. He has a rich wife, an independent income. New York's small Bishop William Thomas Manning, who also has a rich wife, a fine Bishop's Palace, a salary of $15,000 and a $5,000 "discretionary fund," followed suit. In response to an emergency call for retrenchment from Bishop Perry, Massachusetts was the first diocese to act as a unit in salary cuts. Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. who gets $15,000 per year, joined with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopal Economy | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...either with Princeton Theological Seminary or Chicago Presbyterian Seminary. Not until last week was a compromise effected. Lane goes to Chicago. Its antique buildings will be sold. Its minute faculty, its minuscule student body, its fine library of 25,000 volumes, and probably its President Richmond Ames Montgomery, will move to Chicago in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lane's End | 3/14/1932 | See Source »