Word: slemp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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, the latter stock was a Sinclair...
...appreciate and sends regards to you and Mrs. McLean. There will be no rocking of boat and no resignations. He expects reaction from unwarranted political attacks. Bennet." ¶ The publication of two telegrams sent by President Coolidge to Mr. McLean at Palm Beach. One said: "Prescott is away. Advise Slemp with whom I shall confer. Acknowledge." According to announcement from the White House, the President had wished to see some one on political matters in the District of Columbia. Prescott, Republican City Chairman, was away, and the President was asking information on who should be seen in Prescott...
...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...