Word: slemp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge gave a farewell dinner to C. Bascom Slemp, who retired as Secretary to the President. The guests included Secretaries Weeks and Hoover, Speaker Gillett, Senator Hale of Maine, Representatives Longworth and Madden, Commissioners Blair (Internal Revenue) and Burke (Indian Affairs), ex-Senator Sutherland of West Virginia, G. Logan Payne, Washington publisher. Afterward, Mr. Slemp departed for a vacation in Florida before resuming his law practice in Washington...
...Representative Sanders of Indiana who retires (voluntarily) from Congress in March, and is then to become Secretary to the President, began to spend a few hours a day at the White House to tide over the period between Mr. Slemp's exit and his own official entrance...
...Presidential Secretary Slemp, on the eve of retirement and a two weeks' vacation in the South, bade farewell to White House correspondents. Said...
...Sanders, who is only 42, is also about to retire from Congress. He did not stand for re-election in November, intending to resume his law practice. Unlike Mr. Slemp, he is not a man of independent means. He worked his way through college (the University of Indiana), then got into law, finally into Congress, where he has been for eight years, an enthusiastic follower of Nicholas Longworth and the other Republican leaders. He was considered as a nominee for Vice President at the Cleveland Convention but complications in Indiana politics-where Senator James Watson was ambitious-overturned his chances...
...State, in which Secretary Hughes is to be succeeded by Ambassador Kellogg and in the portfolio of Justice, in which Attorney General Stone is to be succeeded by Charles B. Warren, a successor was to be picked for Secretary of Agriculture Gore who retires on Mar. 4. C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, resigned and is to be succeeded by Everett Sanders, at present Congressman from Indiana. Other changes were rumored as well (see Page...