Dates: 1945-1951
The papers of Frank A. Waring include books, newspapers, press clippings, press releases, government reports, legislative and trade agreement records, illustrated charts, correspondence, speeches, legal records and opinions, transcripts of oral arguments, and commission minutes relating to the administrative operations of the Philippine War Damage Commission and the Philippine Rehabilitation Act.
Size: 2.5 linear feet (about 3,600 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave to the U.S. government his copyright interest in these materials. Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents in the collection presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Willie Harriford, Jr. (1962); Erwin J. Mueller (1967, 1971).
Updated by: Kurt Schmeling (2019) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.
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| 1901 (October 12) | Born Frank Arnold Waring, Mesa, Arizona | |
| 1924 | B.S., University of California | |
| 1926 (July 10) | Married Muriel Isabel Monroe | |
| 1928-1934 | Employed as a professor and lecturer | |
| 1930 | M.A., University of California | |
| 1933 | Ph. D in Economics, University of California | |
| 1934-1942 | Economist, U.S. Tariff Commission | |
| 1946-1951 | Chairman of the Philippine War Damage Commission | |
| 1951-1957 | Counselor for Economic Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1957-1961 | Consul General, U.S. Embassy, Sydney, Australia | |
| 1976 (July) | Died, Santa Rosa, California |
The papers of Frank A. Waring include books, newspapers, press clippings, press releases, government reports, legislative and trade agreement records, illustrated charts, correspondence, speeches, legal records and opinions, transcripts of oral arguments, and commission minutes relating to the administrative operations of the Philippine War Damage Commission and the Philippine Rehabilitation Act. The collection is arranged in a single series.
The collection contains correspondence from Commission Chairman Waring to President Truman, copies of the Third Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1946 and the Philippine Rehabilitation Act hearings, a U.S. Public Health Service report, a trade agreement between the U.S. and the Philippines, and correspondence between Waring and Ambassadors Paul McNutt and Emmet O’Neal.
Additional material includes the official minutes of the commission for the years 1946-1951, press clippings about Waring and the commission’s operations, a book of speeches made by Philippine President Manuel Roxas, newspapers detailing the death of Roxas, legal memorandums and opinions written by the general counsel of the commission, surveys into the topic of war damages and the economy of the Philippines, the final report on public property rehabilitation in the Philippines, and the commission’s own final report.
Other collections of the Truman Library relating to the Philippines include the papers of Myron Cowen, J. Weldon Jones, and Emmet O’Neal.
| Container Nos. | Series | |
| 1-5 | SUBJECT FILE, 1945-1951 Books, newspapers, press clippings, press releases, government reports, legislative and trade agreement records, illustrated charts, correspondence, speeches, legal records and opinions, transcripts of oral arguments, and commission minutes. Arranged alphabetically by folder title, and thereunder chronologically. |
Box 1
- Books
- Clippings, 1946-1948
- Clippings, 1949 [1 of 2]
- Clippings, 1949 [2 of 2]
- Clippings, 1950 [1 of 2]
Box 2
- Clippings, 1950 [2 of 2]
- Clippings (Commission)
- Economic Survey Mission to the Philippines (Report), 1950
- Final and Semiannual Report – U.S. Philippine War Damage Commission
- General Counsel, Office of
- General Counsel – Opinions
- Manila (Philippines) Newspapers, 1948-1950
- McNutt, Paul V.
- O’Neal, Emmet
Box 3
- Philippine Rehabilitation Act (Amendment) Hearings, 1947
- Philippine Rehabilitation Act (S. 1610) Hearings, 1946
- Philippine War Damage Commission (Final Report), 1950
- Philippine War Damage Commission, Official Minutes 1946
- Philippine War Damage Commission, Official Minutes 1947 [1 of 2]
- Philippine War Damage Commission, Official Minutes 1947 [2 of 2]
- Philippine War Damage Commission, Official Minutes 1948 [1 of 2]
- Philippine War Damage Commission, Official Minutes 1948 [2 of 2]
- Philippine War Damage Commission, Official Minutes 1949 [1 of 2]
Box 4
- Philippine War Damage Commission, Official Minutes 1949 [2 of 2]
- Philippine War Damage Commission, Official Minutes 1950 [1 of 2]
- Philippine War Damage Commission, Official Minutes 1950 [2 of 2]
- Philippine War Damage Commission, Official Minutes 1951
- Speeches and Messages of President Manuel Roxas of the Philippines, 1947
- Survey of War Damages in the Philippines
Box 5
- Third Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1946 – Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations – House of Representatives – 79th Congress
- Trade Agreement Between the U.S. and the Philippines, 1946
- U.S. Public Health Service Report of Philippine Public Rehabilitation Program, 1945-1950
- White House