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...Bascom Slemp, the President's private secretary, knows men and politics, but the kind of politics he knows is machine politics and machine politics is not what is putting Mr. Coolidge over...
...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President Coolidge: "It became known that John Fox, novelist and one-time husband of Fritzi Scheff, was a boyhood friend of mine in Virginia, that we often went fishing, that I am said to be the original of a character in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine...
...these kind words Mr. Coolidge and C. Bascom Slemp each sent Mr. Ford a telegram of thanks. The telegrams were not made public...
...Homeric recital: "Only one California Postmaster nomination comes to us ... Idaho gets nominations for one Postmaster only . . . Wisconsin, I notice, gets one. Running down the list, there is, however, one State that is very fortunate and that is the State represented by the Secretary to the President, C. Bascom Slemp...
...this concession to the South? Senator Hiram Johnson declared it was an effort of C. Bascom Slemp to put over the nomination of Mr. Coolidge by patronage-bought delegates from the South. But it is known, on the other hand, that Mr. Johnson's own campaign manager, Frank H. Hitchcock, is an "expert broker of Southern delegates...