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Those three from Boston were tops, and I think they were all Republicans. Hoag may not have been a permanent Republican. He may have been one of these off and on again people.

At any rate, he was very good, and he was recommended to us by a number of people in Boston. We got good people from New York. We got George Alger, a liberal lawyer whom I had known for years who was once head of the Child Labor Committee, and a man of utmost integrity and perception and liberal thought, but of practical commonsense too. We got Frnest Angell, who was another liberal lawyer of the same type. It's curious, I can't remember them now. I remember I made a great effort to get a man whose father had been in Hoover's Coolidges! Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior--a man named Fisher, of Chicago. (Not Hoover's) Well, we didn't get him, but I made a great effort to get him. I went out to Chicago and had long talks with him.

I seemed to have put in an awful lot of time getting that Committee appointed, and now I can't remember who they all were, but it's a matter of record, you see, who the members were. Of course we added to the Committee considerably as time went on. Oh, I got Meta Glass. I thought there should be a woman on the Board and we got Meta Glass, who was the retiring President of Sweetbriar