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Nevertheless, two perfectly normal gentlemen, seldom known to do the exotic, started off last week on a Southern automobile trip. One was Speaker Nicholas Longworth, big-chested, blushing, back-slapping Republican leader of the House, natty Presidential hopeful. His gasoline buddy was C. Bascom Slemp, of Virginia, "gleaner and harvester of Southern delegations to Republican National Conventions...
Political observers recalled Mr. Slemp's "performance of 1924, when not a single colored delegate fell down on Mr. Coolidge at Cleveland." Some said that Messrs. Longworth and Slemp have decided that the President is out of the 1928 race, and they (Mr. Longworth as principal, Mr. Slemp as impressario) are in it. True...
...Lawrence, newspaper correspondent, is its publisher. All its news is indexed prominently. The list of "founders" includes: Owen D. Young, Mrs. Medill McCormick, Otto H. Kahn, Edward W. Bok, Robert Lansing, Albert Lasker, John W. Weeks, Bernard M. Baruch, James W. Gerard, E. T. Meredith, Julius Rosenwald, C. Bascom Slemp, Mary Roberts Rinehart, E. M. House, Clarence H. Mackay and John W. Davis...
...Bascom Slemp, Washington lawyer, onetime major domo at the White House office building, announced last week the forthcoming publication of a book, a compilation of President Coolidge's utterances on domestic and foreign policies. The book is to have a foreword by the President and explanatory notes by his former Secretary. Mr. Slemp last week set forth its raison...
...Robinson, Senator and Mrs. Wadsworth, the Republican and Democratic leaders in the House (Messrs. Tilson and Garrett) and their wives, Mr. Alexander P. Moore (onetime Ambassador to Spain), James A. Drain (onetime Commander of the American Legion) and Mrs. Drain, two former ex-Secretaries to the President (C. Bascom Slemp and George B. Christian) and Mrs. Christian, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Dr. and Mrs. Jason Noble Pierce (the President's minister), Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Rinehart, Governor and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut. Afterwards, seated on gilded chairs in the East Room, the guests were regaled with the notes of Alberto...