Word: slemp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, on Mr. Coolidge's behalf, addressed letters to prominent Republican members of Congress, urging them to secure and expedite the pass age of a bill for reorganizing the Executive branch of the Government...
...members of the Cabinet and their wives except Mr and Mrs. James J. Davis, who are in South America (TIME, Nov. 17). Senators Warren, Borah, Wadsworth, Butler, Curtis; Representatives Snell, Sanders (Ind.), Madden, Longworth; Colonel George Harvey, Director of the Budget Lord, John Hays Hammond, C. Bascom Slemp were included. Most of those who had wives brought them. Some of the unattended ladies were Representative Mae E. Nolan, Mrs. Eugene Hale (mother of Senator Hale of Maine and widow of Senator Eugene Hale), Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant (daughter-in-law of the famed General), Mrs. Edward B. McLean (wife...
Engaged. Patten Wise Slemp, of Cincinnati, cousin of C. Bascom Slemp (Secretary to President Coolidge), to Miss Dorothy Dennett of Washington...
Gradually the country quieted. There were to be no disturbances. Mr. Stearns, the veteran business man, was joined at the President's side by Mr. Slemp, the veteran politician. Other acquisitions came?an Airedale, a fox terrier, a collie and finally William M. Butler, the Campaign Manager...
...Secretary Slemp, eternally vigilant, stepped between the busy chief executive and a sheaf of letters from Washington renters at odds with their landlords. The renters, threatened with raises, applied excitedly for presidential intervention, for army "pup" tents on the White House ellipse in case the landlords remained adamant. Vigilant Slemp passed word about rent raises to the District Attorney, about "pup" tents to the War Department. Realtors offered the President their services and Mr. Slemp thanked them. Thus was the Presidential desk kept free for national business...