Word: slemp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bascom Slemp, onetime (1923-25) Secretary to President Coolidge, called at the White House office. He did not come for the pleasure of looking over his former stamping ground, but went in order to advocate the appointment of a Judge in Virginia and the Carolinas...
...generally bruited that the man appointed administrator for the 7th District, Virginia, is thanking C. Bascom Slemp, former Secretary to President Coolidge, for the job; that the administrator for the 11th District, Kentucky, is thanking Senator Ernst; that the administrator for the 12th District, Ohio, is thanking Senator Will that in short, a score of politicians are receiving thanks from the new administrators...
...patronage in the Prohibition unit. Senators protested. A few changes were made in the districting. Indiana was grouped in a district with northern Illinois and eastern Wisconsin instead of with Michigan (Senator James E. Watson protesting successfully), Virginia was grouped with West Virginia instead of with Maryland (C. Bascom Slemp protesting successfully...
...Secretary Slemp slipped into the White House Office Building for a day on returning from Florida to clean up his desk and leave it neat for his successor...
...first, he had to take advice, but did so with some hesitation. He appointed C. Bascomb Slemp as his Secretary to handle a number of political problems. He leaned on the arms of Secretaries Mellon and Hoover, but, when tax-reduction was proposed, he let Mr. Mellon float it as a trial balloon with tacit consent, before determining how strongly to support...