Career
Other info : Bibliography
Poet, dramatist, lawyer, and statesman. Admitted to U.S. Supreme Court Bar, 1942. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, instructor in constitutional law, 1919; Choate, Hall & Stewart (law firm), Boston, MA, staff member, 1920-23; freelance writer in France, 1923-28; Fortune, New York City, staff member, 1929-38; Harvard University, Cambridge, named first curator of Niemann Collection of Contemporary Journalism and adviser to Niemann fellows, 1938; U.S. Government, Washington, DC, served as Librarian of Congress, 1939-44, director of Office of Facts and Figures, 1941-42, assistant director of Office of War Information, 1942-43, and Assistant Secretary of State, 1944-45; Harvard University, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1949-62, Boylston Professor Emeritus, 1962-82. U.S. delegate to Conference of Allied Ministers of Education in London, 1944; served as chair of U.S. delegation to London conference drafting UNESCO constitution, 1945, as first U.S. delegate to General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, 1946, and first U.S. member of Executive Council of UNESCO. U.S. Department of State lecturer in Europe, 1957; Simpson Lecturer, Amherst College, 1963-67. Museum of Modern Art, New York City, trustee, beginning 1940; Sara Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, trustee, beginning 1949.
