Word: slemp
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...President would decline all invitations which might take him away from Washington before the opening of Congress. Mr. Coolidge's tickets to the West Point-Annapolis football game, in Manhattan (which Mr. Coolidge, as Vice President, attended last year and the year before), were used by Secretary Slemp, who took a number of disabled veterans as his guests...
...fortnight ago, C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, ran afoul of these rules, according to Editor and Publisher, trade paper of journalism...
...trouble began when Mr. Slemp began to make exceptions to the newspapermen's rulings. One Elbert Deets Pickett, managing editor of The Clipsheet, Methodist Church paper (see page 18) applied for admission for himself or his representative to the President's press conferences...
...Correspondents' Association said " no." But Mr. Pickett applied to Secretary Slemp, who said "Yes," and Mr. Pickett's representative attended two conferences...
...continued to flourish is that it has kept constantly in mind the thought of the farm as a home and is represented in its membership by the various members of that home." ¶ The President worked on his message to Congress, and in order to conserve valuable time Secretary Slemp arranged that delegations calling at the White House should all be ushered into the room at once. The President then went from one to another and disposed of the entire number in ten minutes. This was the revival of a custom of President Roosevelt. ¶ Mr. Coolidge was made Honorary...