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...last week Campbell Bascom Slemp, Virginia Republican, onetime Coolidge Secretary, strolled into the White House, conferred with President Hoover, strolled out again. Smiling wisely at expectant newsgatherers, he drove off to the Union Station, took a train for Richmond. That night a strange political alliance was born, a culmination of Virginia's "new era of humanity" (TIME, July...
...thousand or so Republican delegates crowded into Richmond's Shrine temple for a state convention. Mr. Slemp was still smiling wisely when he arose, proposed and had his fellow Republicans nominate a Democrat for Governor. The Democrat was Prof. William Moseley Brown of Washington and Lee University, already nominated by the anti-Smith-Raskob wing of his own party (TIME, July, 1). Regular Republicans and the Democrats who had followed Bishop James Cannon Jr. out of their party at Roanoke last fortnight thus coalesced against the regular Democratic state organization. The band played "Dixie." A platform was adopted without...
...Things, Joseph E. Barlow, 66-year-old U. S. citizen with a $5,000,000 land claim against the Cuban Government (TIME, April 29), last week hired what he considered two Big Names to help him pull his claim through to payment. One name was Campbell Bascom Slemp, the other was Everett Sanders. Both were once secretaries to President Coolidge. Shrewd men both, Messrs. Slemp and Sanders entered the Barlow case just at a time when it appeared most likely to prove lucrative...
...from the island. Not only did Mr. Barlow appeal to the U. S. State Department for assistance, but he rowed with Secretary Kellogg whom he threatened to "bust on the nose." Now bent, irritable, old, $5,000,000-Claimer Barlow professes himself reduced to beggary, from which the Slemp & Sanders names must rescue...
...Willard Hotel and the wholesale resignation of the Cabinet - Hughes and Mellon, Hoover and Davis, New and Wallace, Work, Weeks, Daugherty and Denby - and every resignation rejected as it came. There followed the entrance into the White House with eight trunks, and the appearance of astute C. Bascom Slemp, Virginia politician-Secretary, at the Presidential elbow. Came William Morgan Butler, manufacturer and campaign manager, not yet dreaming of the Senate...