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...same club and at the same time President Hoover's hand-picked committee of inquiry into the Gardiner charges was holding its first meeting. Bold old John Hays Hammond was the last to arrive. The committee's other four members?Admiral Hugh Rodman (retired), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke, Undersecretary of State Castle and Eliot Wadsworth?elected him chairman. The five White House investigators, closeted in a private room, drank "Black Cows" (dark ginger ale and cream) as they pored over documents and records brought from the State & Navy Departments. President Hoover had limited their field of investigation...
Committee. Later President Hoover appointed his committee of inquiry: Admiral Hugh Rodman, retired; John Hays Hammond; Eliot Wadsworth, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Undersecretary of State William Richards Castle; Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Although Messrs. Hammond, Wadsworth & Jahncke are Navy Leaguers, they are Administration men. The committee's make-up therefore pointed to a complete victory for President Hoover...
...addition the following will hold themselves in readiness to give information about Oxford and the scholarships: Eliot House, Assistant Professor F. O. Matthiessen; Adams House, J. A. Ross; Dunster House, Assistant Professor C. C. Brinton '19; Lowell House, Mason Hammond '25; Winthrop House, D. B. Durand '25; Kirkland House, Assistant Professor E. A. Whitney '17; Leverett House, Associate Professor W. C. Greene...
Weevils & Records. Before the Civil War at a time when South Carolina's Senator James Henry Hammond first proclaimed Cotton King, the South was producing about 4,300,000 bales per year.* In 40 years the production had more than doubled. In 1914 the 15 cotton States of the Union brought forth an all-time record crop of 16,000,000 bales?and the South almost went bankrupt when the outbreak of the War blocked export. In 1892 Boll Weevil had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. The spreading infestation over-took expanding cotton production after 1914, reduced...
...March 4, 1858 Senator Hammond addressed the Senate thus...