Word: bascom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President Coolidge: "It became known that John Fox, novelist and one-time husband of Fritzi Scheff, was a boyhood friend of mine in Virginia, that we often went fishing, that I am said to be the original of a character in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine...
...these kind words Mr. Coolidge and C. Bascom Slemp each sent Mr. Ford a telegram of thanks. The telegrams were not made public...
...Homeric recital: "Only one California Postmaster nomination comes to us ... Idaho gets nominations for one Postmaster only . . . Wisconsin, I notice, gets one. Running down the list, there is, however, one State that is very fortunate and that is the State represented by the Secretary to the President, C. Bascom Slemp...
...organized form. William M. Butler, Republican National Committeeman from Massachusetts, was made titular head of the Coolidge organization, and announced that he would open National headquarters. There he will be in close touch with James W. Good of Iowa and James B. Reynolds of Illinois, sub-chieftains. Secretary C. Bascom Slemp takes responsibility for the South. Meanwhile, bending their constant efforts, practically taking bed and board at the White House, are Frank W. Stearns of Boston and Colonel George Harvey of Peacham...
...this concession to the South? Senator Hiram Johnson declared it was an effort of C. Bascom Slemp to put over the nomination of Mr. Coolidge by patronage-bought delegates from the South. But it is known, on the other hand, that Mr. Johnson's own campaign manager, Frank H. Hitchcock, is an "expert broker of Southern delegates...