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For fifteen years ( 1917-1932 ) he worked for the Boston investment banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co ; most of those years serving as its chief executive officer, as well as with its London branch.

He was executive secretary of the American section of the Allied Maritime Transport Council stationed in London, England 1918.

He lived in Toynbee Hall, the world's first settlement house.

This brought him in contact with the Round Table Group in England, a contact which was strengthened in 1919 when he became secretary to the Reparations Commission at the Paris Peace Conference.

Accordingly, on his return to the United States he was one of the early figures in the establishment of the Council on Foreign Relations which served as the New York branch of the Lionel Curtis Institute of International Affairs.