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Title: Norwood F. Allman papers,
Date (inclusive): 1929-1987
Collection number: 87042
Creator:
Allman, Norwood F. (Norwood Francis), 1893-1987
Collection Size: 26 manuscript boxes, 4 envelopes (11.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, radio broadcast transcripts, memoranda, reports,
notes, biographical card files, and clippings, relating to conditions in China
(especially in Shanghai) before and after 1949, American-Chinese relations, and American
intelligence activities in China during World War II.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Norwood F. Allman papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1987.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
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http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
China--History--Republic, 1912-1949
China--History--1949-1976
Americans--China
United States--Foreign relations--China
China--Foreign relations--United States
World War, 1939-1945--China
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service
United States. Office of Strategic Services
Secret service--United States
Shanghai (China)
China
United States--Foreign relations
United States--Armed Forces
World War, 1939-1945
Journalists
| 1893, July 24 | Born, Union Hall, Virginia |
| 1916 | Law degree, University of Virginia |
| 1916 | Student interpreter at U.S. Legation, Peking, China |
| 1916-1923 | Served in Consulates in Antung, Tientsin, Tsinan, Tsingtao, Chungking, and Shanghai |
| 1923-1941 | Member, Shanghai Volunteer Corps |
| 1924 | Resigned from consular service |
| 1924-1933 | Honorary Consul for Mexico in Shanghai, China |
| 1924-1950 | Practiced law in Shanghai, China |
| 1927-1935 | Instructor at Comparative Law School of China, Soochow University, Shanghai, China |
| 1937-1941 | Editor and publisher, Shen Pao, Shanghai, China |
| 1940-41 | Member, Shanghai Municipal Council |
| 1941-42 | Interned at Stanley (Japanese) Prison Camp, Hongkong |
| 1942-45 | Chief, Far East Section, Secret Intelligence Branch, U.S. Office of Strategic Services |
| 1943 | Author, Shanghai Lawyer |
| 1948-49 | Editor and publisher, The China Press, Shanghai, China |
| 1950, October | Left Shanghai for the United States |
| 1954-56 | Associate Editor, Business International, New York City |
| 1961-64 | Far East Editor, Broadcast Editorial Reports, New York City |
| 1987, April 30 | Died, Carlisle, Pennsylvania |