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Under Walter White the NAACP had pressured the president and his attorney general to make public their support for the bill, but to no avail. Homer Cummings, the attorney general, was stubbornly resistant to any direct federal involvement in the investigation of Neal's death. White had called upon him to pursue Neal's abductors and torturers under the Kidnapping Act, popularly known as the "Lindbergh Law." Cummings declined to do so, steadfastly holding to an interpretation of the act that required a demand for ransom be made before the provisions of the law could be invoked. The mob had made no such demand with respect to Neal. The affair, therefore, remained a matter of legal concern solely to the state of Florida. Never expressed were the attorney general's fears of what federal intervention could do to the congressional support he required for the passage of...
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