Word: bascom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sadder piece of news than the election (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). It caught Sports Editor Warren Brown as he arrived in Manhattan to cover the Army-Notre Dame game: he was fired, but could stay on as a columnist if he wanted-at lower pay. Lanky, stuttering Bascom Timmons, the Washington bureau chief, picked up a phone and heard it from Marshall Field himself: Timmons and all but four of the ten-man capital crew were through. Overseas correspondents got the word in depressing cables; city-room men got it by rumor, then by dismissal notices...
Died. Henry Bascom Steagall, 70. Democratic Representative from Alabama since 1915, chairman of the House's Banking & Currency Committee, longtime leader of the House's powerful farm bloc; of a heart attack, three days after speaking for his inflationary Commodity Credit Corporation bill (see p. 22); in Washington...
Died. Campbell Bascom Slemp, 72, one-time White House secretary to Calvin Coolidge, longtime GOPolitico; of heart disease; in Knoxville, Tenn. Straight-faced, high-collared Bascom Slemp promised Coolidge he would write no intimate memoirs...
...committee's mice-like labors had brought forth a mountain of confusion. The chairman, bulb-nosed, tobacco-chawin', houn'-dog-lovin' Henry Bascom Steagall of Ozark, Ala. had shown no disposition to hurry price-control legislation until the cotton-marketing season was over. The farm bloc, in complete control of the committee, had searched long and skillfully for a formula which would substantially inflate all farm prices, had finally found it: a ceiling on farm prices may not be set below the highest of these three levels: 1) 110% of parity; 2) the average price from...
...waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry Seidel Canby; a Swiftian attack on Irishmen; a few poignant pages on Cousin Arnold in which is resurrected the snorting ghost of that great comic character Bascom Hawke...