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...announcement was made officially; it remains only for the change to be made. C. Bascom Slemp gave his resignation to the President and it was accepted. That there was discord between the President and his Secretary was a well-credited rumor more than six months ago. Mr. Slemp and the President's campaign manager, William M. Butler, clashed at the Cleveland Convention last June over the selection of the vice presidential candidate. Afterwards, Mr. Slemp would have resigned (TIME, June 30) had not the President succeeded in pacifying...
...presumed that friction or perhaps "discordance" began because C. Bascom Slemp hoped to graduate from the position of Secretary to the President to that of Chairman of the Republican National Committee and campaign manager. Instead, William M. Butler was given the post. Some time later the above mentioned clash occurred. But Mr. Slemp stayed on through the campaign and election. He stayed on some time further. It was rumored that he hoped for a seat in the Cabinet-for the office of Postmaster General in particular...
...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...