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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...
...better part of two days the Hoover Committee continued its secret sessions. No witnesses were called, no testimony was taken. Finally a report? "a damned good one," Admiral Rodman called it?was prepared and on the morning of the third day the committee sent it to the White House. The President read the 10,000-word document with satisfaction for, as all the world expected, it found that he was right and Mr. Gardiner wrong...
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...
...Editor Rodman: I wouldn't have brought him around if I knew he was this way. I'm awfully sorry...
...Yale 1907, possessor of a large gold medal worth $500 which he received along with his $46,350 Nobel Prize; Harrison Smith, Yale 1907, tall, dignified publisher (Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, Inc.); Dr. Charles Everett Rush, associate librarian in charge during the absence of Librarian Andrew Keogh; Gary Selden Rodman, an editor of Yale's Harkness Hoot, friend of Author Lewis. Dialog...