Herbert Hoover actually said...
Inasmuch as H. Percival Dodge was appointed in the Diplomatic Service on February 16, 1899, as third secretary of the embassy at Berlin; was promoted through the several classes; was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and served in that capacity in Salvador, Honduras, Morocco, Panama, Yugoslavia, and, since February 23, 1926, in Denmark; has held the posts of Chief of the Division of Latin American Affairs in the Department of State; secretary to the special commission of the United States at the Niagara Falls Mediation Conference in 1914; assistant to the American ambassador to France; special agent of the Department of State in Serbia; and special representative of the President, with the rank of ambassador, at the marriage ceremonies of King Alexander; is regarded as having been separated from the classified service within the meaning of the act approved May 24, 1924, by reason of appointment to another position in the Government service: he may be reinstated without examination as a Foreign Service officer of Class I when a vacancy shall occur.
02/24/1930