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Title: Robert Allen Griffin papers
Date (inclusive): 1942-1971
Collection Number: 75027
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
13 manuscript boxes, 3 envelopes
(5.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, memoranda, speeches and writings, photographs, and printed matter, relating to American technical
and economic assistance missions to China and Southeast Asia.
Creator:
Griffin, R. Allen (Robert Allen), 1893-1981
Creator:
Lapham, Roger D. (Roger Dearborn), 1883-1966
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.
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[Identification of item], Robert Allen Griffin papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical List
1893, September 27 |
Born, Kansas City, Missouri |
1917 |
B. A., Stanford University |
1917-1919 |
Military service |
1919 |
Reporter,
Portland Oregonian and
Portland Journal, Portland, Oregon
|
1919-1920 |
Secretary to First Polish Minister to U.S., Prince Lubormirski |
1920-1921 |
Director, Polish Bureau of Information |
1921 |
Manager, American Polish Chamber of Commerce |
1922 |
Founder and publisher,
Monterey Peninsula Herald, Monterey, California
|
1935 |
Founder of radio station, KDON, Del Monte, California |
1941-1945 |
Military service |
1942 |
Co-author,
The School of the Citizen Soldier
|
1948-1949 |
Deputy Chief, U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration, China |
1950 |
Chief, U.S. Department of State Economic Mission to Southeast Asia |
1950-1951 |
Director, U.S. Economic Cooperation Admnistration, Far East Program Division |
1951-1952 |
Special Representative of the Far East, U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration and Mutual Security Agency |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- China
Vietnam -- History
Economic assistance, American -- China
Economic assistance, American -- Southeast Asia
Technical assistance, American -- Southeast Asia
Technical assistance, American -- China
Indochina -- History
United States. Department of State
United States. Economic Cooperation Administration