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...Campbell Bascom Slemp had hardly left the White House as Calvin Coolidge's secretary when Mr. Herbermann snapped up his professional services to help Export Steamship buy some freighters from the Shipping Board. The Government was asking $8.50 per ton. Export Steamship offered $5. Fixer Slemp got 18 of them for his client for $7.50 per ton-a total of $1,071,431. He sent the company a bill for $50,000. Mr. Herbermann settled...
...screen drama adapted from the play by Bella and Samuel Spewack, directed by Jack Conway and presented by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer at the Loew's State Theatre with the following cast: Oliver Herbert Marshall Mrs. Hopkins Mary Boland Wallace Lionel Atwill Mrs. Vail May Robson Helen Elizabeth Allen Bascom Ralph Forbes Mrs. Peabody Lucille Gleason Mr. Peabody Robert McWade...
Selling stolen jewels to gullible American made ladies, dramatically watching the croupier gather in their last chips at Monte Carlo signifying that Mrs. Vail would have to dispense with another heirloom the four comrades in crime, Oliver. Mrs. Vail, Helen and Bascom, roamed across the continent cheating the rich and law. And were they not justified? The Great War had been cruel. Enough of that Solemly Oliver declares that he has bought an estate in Devonshire so that they can retire to respectability. Helen has consented of marry him: life is once again roseate. But Bascom, the uncurable dope-flend...
...farm in the southwest corner of the State, George Peery plowed, clerked in a store, taught school, studied law under John William Davis at Washington & Lee. The 9th Congressional District in which he lived had been under the Republican thumb of the Slemps, Father Campbell and Son Bascom, for 25 years. In 1922 Democrat Peery defeated the Slemp candidate, went to the House, stayed there six years. A modest, substantial citizen, married and the father of three, he made a cautious, sedate gubernatorial campaign, recommended Repeal of the 18th Amendment, ignored the noisy attacks of his opponents. Said...
...Texas newsman, Bascom N. Timmons, said to represent either Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram or Eugene Lorton of the Tulsa World, opened the bidding at $250,000, the minimum set by the court. At $300,000 Mrs. McLean's lawyer, Nelson Hartson, chimed in. Then Lawyer Geoffrey Konta, for William Randolph Hearst. Up, up the bidding soared to $600,000, mounted again when Lawyer Hartson went inside to consult Mrs. McLean. Sadly she told him to withdraw. "I think $600,000 is all it's worth," she said. Presently the auction narrowed...