Word: slemp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leonard Wood in 1920. Mr. Hitchcock's greatest strength lies, so it is whispered, in his control over southern delegates. But in the unusual task of pledging these "rotten horough" representatives to Johnson, the progressive candidate, Mr. Hitchcock will meet the redoubtable Mr. C. Bascem Slemp, who, although he has not been appointed campaign manager, presumably still retains the full measure of loyalty to his chief...
...East, are convinced that unless some "untoward incident" occurs, Mr. Coolidge will win the nomination. They grant the Johnson boom plenty of publicity, fire-works, and financial backing, but in the end, they believe, the California forces will be scattered before the trained legions of Butler and Slemp...
Secretary C. Bascom Slemp is not campaign manager. But he is a capable man to undertake the business of negotiation and maneuvering for position. There was a report of his activities in Alabama, where the friends of Senator Underwood have arranged a regulation that all candidates in that state's Presidential primaries must be state residents. Mr. Slemp was said to have arranged that Aubrey Thomas, formerly a Congressman from Ohio but now a resident of Alabama, will run in the primaries and deliver his delegates to Coolidge at the Convention...
...Postmaster General in Taft's Cabinet) ; he conducted Hughes in 1916; and he conducted Leonard Wood on an expensive trip to the Convention in 1920. He is known as a specialist in Southern delegates, and there should be a keen duel between him and C. Bascom Slemp for the delegations from the South? although there will not be so much to quarrel over since the Southern delegations have been cut (TIME, Sept. 24). Not in idle fun was he called an "astute broker of delegates...
...Bascom Slemp. He is having his first unpleasantness...