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...their faithful allies since 1872 . . . "The so-called grand old party is not the party of Grant, Sumner, Chandler and men of that class, but is today composed largely of the representatives of special privilege, and, so far as the Negro is concerned, composed of such lily whites as Bascom Slemp, the Sec- retary and mouthpiece of the President...
...Butler, however, is known to have designs on a seat in the Senate, the seat occupied by David Ignatius Walsh, pugnacious Democrat. NO man could battle David Walsh with one hand, and guide the fortunes of the Republican National Campaign with the other-hoping to do both successfully. C. Bascom Slemp has been suggested as an alternative. But the President may be loath to part with his able Secretary...
...Spaid, No. 4" on the day news of the Sinclair lease was given out. Most of the transactions by others were very minor and not of a speculative character. Senator Davis Elkins of West Virginia, however, speculated on a comparatively large scale, but had, in the net, losses. C. Bascom Slemp, then a Representative from Virginia, now Secretary to the President, was listed for two transactions, one the sale of 100 shares of Doheny stock for a cousin, P. W. Slemp, the other purchase and sale of 1,000 shares of Mexican Seaboard. Mr. Slemp denied that, in his knowledge...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the finish of a 10-mile marathon race in the Capital and saw one J. Movis, of the Nativity Catholic Club of Philadelphia, break the tape, a winner. ¶ Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, accompanied by C. Bascom Slemp, Miss Virginia Burke (a descendant of the Washington and the Jefferson families) and Congressman Moore of Virginia, went from Washington to the nearby city of Alexandria on the Sunday following Washington's birthday. They attended services in Christ Church, of which President Washington was a vestryman, and sat in the Washington...
...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, was called before the investigating committee and asked what relations he had with Edward B. Mc-Lean, ex-Secretary Fall, Sinclair or Doheny. The last two he had never met or communicated with. During the first two weeks in January while the Secretary was at Palm Beach on vacation, he had encountered Mr. McLean on the golf course. Later he had called on the McLeans and had met Mr. Fall who was visiting them. They had talked about the Volstead Act, golf, the weather, the Mellon tax plan. Teapot Dome, not then such...