Word: bascom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Town Topics, well pleased over Mr. Coolidge's appointment of C. Bascom Slemp as his secretary, bombinated as follows...
Unofficial information, issuing from the White House in the guise of " personal friends " of the President, gave out that Mr. Coolidge is not seeking delegates to the next Republican National Convention. This information was promulgated to counter the impression that C. Bascom Slemp was appointed Secretary to the President " in order to corral Southern delegates...
...That his name is C. Bascom Slemp...
...Coolidge appointed C. Bascom Slemp of Big Stone Gap, Va., and the announcement was received by politicians as a distinct surprise...
...them among the 9,500 names in American Men of Science. The League might well have mentioned, for instance, Margaret F. Washburn (president of the American Psychological Association, 1922), Lillien J. Martin, Mary W. Calkins, Ethel Puffer Howes, Christine Ladd-Franklin or Helen B. Woolley, psychologists; Florence Bascom, geologist; Alice C. Fletcher (who died last month) or Elsie Clews Parsons, anthropologists; Cornelia Clapp, Katharine Foot or Mary J. Rathbun, zoologists; Lydia DeWitt or Louise Pearce, pathologists; Anna Johnson Pell or Charlotte Scott, mathematicians; Mary E. Pennington, chemist; Ellen Churchill Semple, geographer; S. Josephine Baker or Daisy Robinson, sanitarians, and several...