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Campbell Bascom Slemp had hardly left the White House as Calvin Coolidge's secretary when Mr. Herbermann snapped up his professional services to help Export Steamship buy some freighters from the Shipping Board. The Government was asking $8.50 per ton. Export Steamship offered $5. Fixer Slemp got 18 of them for his client for $7.50 per ton-a total of $1,071,431. He sent the company a bill for $50,000. Mr. Herbermann settled...
...years ago on his father's farm in the southwest corner of the State, George Peery plowed, clerked in a store, taught school, studied law under John William Davis at Washington & Lee. The 9th Congressional District in which he lived had been under the Republican thumb of the Slemps, Father Campbell and Son Bascom, for 25 years. In 1922 Democrat Peery defeated the Slemp candidate, went to the House, stayed there six years. A modest, substantial citizen, married and the father of three, he made a cautious, sedate gubernatorial campaign, recommended Repeal of the 18th Amendment, ignored the noisy...
...Campbell Bascom Slemp, Calvin Coolidge's onetime secretary, paid an election bet by shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...
Honored. Henry Ford, the Royal Order of the Crown of Italy; University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, knighthood in the French Legion of Honor; General Douglas MacArthur, the Grand Cross of the Rumanian Order of the Star; Arturo Toscanini and Campbell Bascom Slemp, the commander's cravat of the French Legion of Honor; Professor Auguste Piccard, knighthood in the Belgian Order of Leopold; Poet Maurice Maeterlinck, grand officer in the Legion of Honor...
...anti-Hearst suits are based on substantially the same statements, viz: i) that Bishop Cannon was visiting his secretary Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum (his present wife) in her apartment on the night before his first wife died; 2) that Bishop Cannon retained Attorneys Campbell Bascom Slemp and John Price to defend Bucket-Shopper H. L. Goldhurst, with whom the Bishop had dealt and who was subsequently imprisoned for using the mails to defraud. The Best Brain also ascribes to Publisher Hearst a carefully ordered campaign to involve him in the financial difficulties of his son, Richard M. Cannon. California schoolmaster...