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Born: 16 July 1888 - Boston, USA [United States of America].
Nationality: American.
Career before entering Secretariat:
1912-13 as Reporter, Springfield Republican (Mass).
1914-15 as War Correspondent in France and Belgium.
1916-17 as Assigned to the State Department as Associated Press Correspondent.
1917-18 as Captain i n Aviation Section of Signal Corps.
1919 as Assistant to Ray Stannard Baker of the Press Section of the American Commission to Negotiate the Peace.
Career in Secretariat:
7 Sept. 1919 as Member, Information Section, League of Nations Secretariat.
1 Jan 1930 as Counselor to Information Section.
1 Jan 1934 as Director attached to the Principal officers of the Secretariat of the League.
Left Secretariat: 31 Dec 1942 (suspended 18 May1942).
Later Career:
1942-46 as Deputy Director, Office of War Information, Washington.
1942-46 as Chairman, United Nations Information Board.
1943 as Member, US Delegation to UNRRA Conferences at Atlantic City and Montreal, Canada.
1943 as Member, US Delegation to Brottton Woods Conference.
1945 as Member, US Delegation to San Francsioo Conference on International Organization.
1943-45 as President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
1946 as Member, US Delegation to the First General Assembly of the United Nations at London.
1946 as Special Advisor t o Secretary General Trygve Lie,U.N. New York.
1946 as Member, Board of Directors, American Association for the United Nations.
1946-53 as Director of the Washington Information Office of the United Nations.
1948-49 as Chairman of the Washington World Affairs Center.
1955 as President of the International Schools Foundation.
1956 as Member, Woodrow Wilson Centennial Commission.
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Protection period to: 2006-12-31
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