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...Senator La Follette produced an investigators' report which showed that of Sheriff Middleton's 163 current deputies, 14 had served time in State prisons, two in Federal prisons. 34 had been indicted locally, all for crimes of violence. The sheriff's prize deputy was his brother Slemp, ordered removed from office by a Circuit Court in 1934 as "one of the'most dangerous men in Harlan County." As soon as things had quieted down, Sheriff Middleton put Brother Slemp, back to work as a law officer...
Euclid Avenue was filled with old familiar faces, some of whom Cleveland had not seen since 1924 when her new Public Hall needed no WPA renovation and Calvin Coolidge was nominated. C. Bascom Slemp from Virginia, David A. Reed from Pennsylvania, Ralph E. Williams from Oregon, Walter F. Brown from nearby Toledo, Jim Watson over the border from Indiana, Charles G. Dawes from Chicago, came trooping in. So did the Elephant's ladies, Alice Longworth from Cincinnati, Ruth Hanna [McCormick] Simms, now from New Mexico, Ruth Baker Pratt from New York. Crowds seethed in hotel lobbies. Fat men sweated...
...this day his good natured brother Tom generally takes two drinks when they are passed, saying, "this is mine and this is Harry's") and he was not spectacular. But the time came when he led the Democrats in the State Senate and soundly trounced C. Bascom Slemp's Republicans. Finally in 1925, he was elected Governor and gave Virginia a new deal-of the kind he had given his father's newspaper...
...performed every other duty in life-as a Christian woman and as a citizen of the U. S.- faithfully and honestly." Then the Government brought on its witnesses. Mr. Jameson testified that he had given $65,300 to the Bishop who was introduced to him by C. Bascomb Slemp. The Government attorney told the jury that the Bishop had said, "I destroyed all the correspondence I could lay my hands on so that anyone who delved into my affairs would find nothing. . . . I know that bunch down in Virginia." Trying to prove that there had never been
...Bascom Slemp: Everett Saunders, now chairman of the Republican National Committee; William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan; onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley...