Word: bascom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge gave a farewell dinner to C. Bascom Slemp, who retired as Secretary to the President. The guests included Secretaries Weeks and Hoover, Speaker Gillett, Senator Hale of Maine, Representatives Longworth and Madden, Commissioners Blair (Internal Revenue) and Burke (Indian Affairs), ex-Senator Sutherland of West Virginia, G. Logan Payne, Washington publisher. Afterward, Mr. Slemp departed for a vacation in Florida before resuming his law practice in Washington...
...announcement was made officially; it remains only for the change to be made. C. Bascom Slemp gave his resignation to the President and it was accepted. That there was discord between the President and his Secretary was a well-credited rumor more than six months ago. Mr. Slemp and the President's campaign manager, William M. Butler, clashed at the Cleveland Convention last June over the selection of the vice presidential candidate. Afterwards, Mr. Slemp would have resigned (TIME, June 30) had not the President succeeded in pacifying...
...presumed that friction or perhaps "discordance" began because C. Bascom Slemp hoped to graduate from the position of Secretary to the President to that of Chairman of the Republican National Committee and campaign manager. Instead, William M. Butler was given the post. Some time later the above mentioned clash occurred. But Mr. Slemp stayed on through the campaign and election. He stayed on some time further. It was rumored that he hoped for a seat in the Cabinet-for the office of Postmaster General in particular...
...State, in which Secretary Hughes is to be succeeded by Ambassador Kellogg and in the portfolio of Justice, in which Attorney General Stone is to be succeeded by Charles B. Warren, a successor was to be picked for Secretary of Agriculture Gore who retires on Mar. 4. C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, resigned and is to be succeeded by Everett Sanders, at present Congressman from Indiana. Other changes were rumored as well (see Page...
...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, on Mr. Coolidge's behalf, addressed letters to prominent Republican members of Congress, urging them to secure and expedite the pass age of a bill for reorganizing the Executive branch of the Government...