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Title: Edward Eyre Hunt Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1902-1953
Collection number: 56008
Creator:
Hunt, Edward E., 1885-1953
Extent:
104 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 envelope, 3 maps.
(44.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Reports, memoranda, correspondence, diaries, writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to relief and reconstruction
in Europe during and after World Wars I and II (especially in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland), the Commission
for Relief in Belgium, the American Red Cross, Herbert Hoover and the presidential campaign of 1920, and American economic
conditions between the two world wars.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
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[Identification of item], Edward Eyre Hunt Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
American National Red Cross.
Commission for Relief in Belgium (1914-1930)
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
United States. President's Emergency Committee for Employment.
International relief.
Presidents--United States--Election--1920.
Reconstruction (1914-1939)
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Unemployed--United States.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918--Belgium.
World War, 1914-1918--Civilian relief.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief.
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects.
Belgium.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Economic conditions.
United States--Politics and government.
Economists.
| 1885, August 1 | Born, Bellwood, Nebraska |
| 1910 | A.B., Harvard |
| 1910 | Author, Sir Orfeo |
| 1910-1912 | Secretary for appointments and assistant in English Department, Harvard |
| 1912-1914 | Editorial staff, American Magazine, New York |
| 1914 | War Correspondent, Europe |
| 1914-1916 | American delegate, Commission for Relief in Belgium in charge of Province of Antwerp |
| 1916 | Author, War Bread: A Personal Narrative of the War and Relief in Belgium |
| 1916 | Author, Haj |
| 1917 | Director of Publications, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C. |
| 1917-1918 | Head of Economic Rehabilitation work of Red Cross in France |
| 1917 | Director General of Civilian Relief, Red Cross, Italy |
| 1918 | Author, Tales from a Famished Land |
| 1918 | Author, The Red Cross on the Front Line in the Great Battle of 1918 |
| 1920 | Labor Manager, Clothing Industry, New York |
| 1920 | Appointed by Herbert Hoover as member of the Committee on Elimination of Waste in Industry, Federated American Engineering Societies |
| 1921 | Secretary of Conference on Unemployment called by President Warren Harding |
| 1921 | Co-author, Waste in Industry |
| 1922-1923 | Secretary, U.S. Coal Commission |
| 1923 | Co-author, Business Cycles and Unemployment |
| 1924 | Co-author, Seasonal Operation in the Construction Industries |
| 1924 | Editor, Scientific Management Since Taylor |
| 1925 | Author, Conferences, Committees, Conventions, and How to Run Them |
| 1925 | Editor, What the Coal Commission Found |
| 1927 | American Expert on Scientific Management, League of Nations, World Economic Conference |
| 1928 | Member, Committee on Recent Economic Changes |
| 1929 | Editor, Recent Economic Changes in the United States |
| 1930 | Author, An Audit of America |
| 1930-1931 | Secretary, President's Emergency Committee for Employment |
| 1930-1933 | Member, President's Research Committee on Social Trends |
| 1931 | American member of World Economic Depression Inquiry |
| 1937 | Author, Greathouse |
| 1939-1940 | Engaged in economic and social surveys, Venezuela |
| 1942-1943 | Chief Industrial Economist, War Production Board |
| 1943 | Associate Director, Field Operations, Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation, U.S. Department of State |
| 1944 | Chief of Italian Division, Foreign Economic Administration |
| 1944 | Editor, The Power Industry and the Public Interest |
| 1945-1946 | Director, Italian Division, U.S. Department of State |