Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1896, July 13 | Born, Chicago, Ill. |
1918 | A.B., Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif. |
1918-1919 | Sergeant of ordnance, American Expeditionary Forces |
1919 | Student, University of Grenoble, Isere, France; wrote Contemporary French Politics |
1920 | M.A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
1920-1921 | Assistant professor of history and economics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif. |
1922 | Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
1922-1925 | Instructor in government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
1925-1926 | Investigated political conditions in Africa, Bureau of International Research, Harvard University and Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. |
1926-1927 | Assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
1927-1939 | Research director, 1927-1933, and president, 1933-1939, Foreign Policy Association |
1928 | Married Frances March Dwight Representative of Foreign Policy Association, Pan American Conference, Havana, Cuba Published The Native Problem in Africa (New York: Macmillan Co. 2 vols.) |
1934 | Chairman, Commission on Cuban Affairs |
1934-1935 | Cofounder and research advisor, National Policy Committee |
1935-1936 | Director, Geneva Research Center, Geneva, Switzerland |
1938-1942 | Advisor and roundtable editor for Time, Inc. |
1939 | Published Poland: Key to Europe (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 364 pp.) |
1940 | Published Isolated America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 457 pp.) Foreign affairs adviser to Wendell L. Willkie's presidential campaign |
1942 | Unsuccessful candidate for Congress, first district of Massachusetts |
1942-1946 | Foreign affairs advisor to the editors of Time, Life, and Fortune magazines |
1946 | Died, Montreal, Canada |