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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...
...Bascom Slemp. He is having his first unpleasantness...
...correspondents drew up their rules in black and white, providing that they should be sole judges of eligibility of their members. They were submitted to the President through Secretary Slemp, and were returned with the President's approval and a penciled amendment by the Secretary: " Full authority is reserved by the Secretary to the President to make and enforce exceptions to the eligible list...
Thereupon the newspapermen notified Mr. Coolidge that if such was the case the burden of policing press conferences and protecting the President's confidences could no longer rest on them but must fall on Mr. Slemp. Their object in restricting the classes of persons admitted to press conferences has been, not to exclude others than newspapermen from interviews with the President, but to insure that only bona-fide journalists could be present at conferences when the President chose to speak purely for the enlightenment of correspondents and not for those who might take advantage of his words in furthering...
...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President Coolidge: " F. W. Wile, Washington correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, brought to light last week the fact that 1, 53, unmarried, wealthy, am sending eight of my young cousins and nephews through school. Two of them are attending Virginia Military Institute, of which I, myself, am a graduate. He stated that I am also rebuilding a church, founded by my great-grandfather, at Big Stone Gap, Va., my home town...