He was appointed United States agent to the Mixed Claims Commission (United States and Germany) in 1923 and before the Tripartite Claims Commission (United States, Austria, and Hungary) in 1927. He settled claims against Germany to compensate for losses of 114 American people who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania" in May 1915. By 1930, he resolved 24,000 claims totally over $300,000. "The New York Times" stated that he accomplished "bringing order out of chaos left by the World War".