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Asked to compose a march for next year's International Colonial and Overseas Exposition in Paris, Bandmaster John Philip Sousa replied last week to Commissioner General of the Exposition Campbell Bascom Slemp: "It will afford me great pleasure to write a march dedicated to the French Exposition. I hope that the inspiration will come shortly, and that I may be able to have the march ready by or before May 1, 1931." To date Bandmaster Sousa has turned out 132 marches, most of them occasional...
...Bulkley already knows well, having helped him write the Federal Reserve Act in the 63rd Congress) and Senator-elect Lewis of Illinois. Some Republicans who must not be overlooked are Ralph Williams of Oregon, "Tieless Joe" Tolbert of South Carolina. Perry Howard of Mississippi, Virginia's Bascom Slemp...
Against him in the November election will run Prof. William Moseley Brown, 35, of Washington & Lee, nominated by a fusion of Republicans under C. Bascom Slemp and anti-Smith Democrats led by Bishop James Cannon Jr. (TIME, July 8). Bishop Cannon has attempted to make the campaign issue: "Wet-Raskobism." Facts to point the Cannon issue: Prof. Pollard was supported by Governor Harry Flood Byrd, Brown Derby advocate, and had himself stumped for Governor Smith. Facts to blunt the Cannon issue: Both candidates are Dry; both candidates are Protestant...
Many an oldtime Southern Republican wondered how the Slemp trick would work. Virginia Republicans normally muster 75,000 or more votes. The runaway Democrats of 1928 numbered only some 40,000 votes. In the new alliance the majority accepted the minority's major candidate...
...Slemp's visit to the White House bore fruit when President Hoover telegraphed the Richmond convention that its action "added proof of the purpose of the people of your great State to rise and remain above the level of single party control in local government," and that it would "prove an inspiration to other States throughout the South to do likewise...