Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1891, 16 Nov. | Born, Boston, Mass. |
1913 | A.B., Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. |
1913-1915 | Instructor, first at Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow, China, and then at Peking University, Peking, China |
1916 | A.M., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
1918 | Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
1918-1919 | Service in United States Army in Washington, D.C., and in France, primarily with the Statistics Branch of the General Staff |
1919-1928 | Member, League of Nations secretariat |
1919-1920 | Liaison with American Commission to Negotiate Peace Personal assistant to Raymond B. Fosdick, undersecretary general of the League of Nations |
1920 | Married Elizabeth Brace |
1920-1925 | Chief, Department on Administrative Commissions, handling work relating to the Saar Basin and Danzig |
1925-1928 | Assistant director, Mandates Section, League of Nations |
1928-1949 | Executive with American Cyanamid Co. and its foreign subsidiaries |
1943 | Executive officer, First Session, UNRRA Council, Atlantic City, N.J. |
1944 | Secretary General, Second Session, UNRRA Council, Montreal |
1945 | Executive officer, Commission II, United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, Calif. |
1945 | Member, United States delegation to United Nations Preparatory Commission, London, England |
1945-1946 | Executive secretary, Inspection Group, Interim Committee and Full Committee of General Assembly on Headquarters for the United Nations; chief, Headquarters Planning Section, United Nations Secretariat |
1945-1947 | Member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, American Institute of Pacific Relations |
1947 | Consultant on Trusteeship, United Nations |
1947-1950 | Chairman of the Pacific Council, the international governing body of the Institute of Pacific Relations |
1949-1955 | Vice chairman, Board of Trustees, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. |
1949-1950 | Director, Industry Division, Economic Cooperation Administration, Paris, France |
1950-1954 | Chief, United States Aid Mission to Belgium and Luxembourg |
1955-1957 | Resident representative, United Nations Technical Assistance Board, Karachi, Pakistan |
1975, 13 Jan. | Died, Ridgefield, Conn. |