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Title: Edward Eyre Hunt papers
Date (inclusive): 1902-1953
Collection Number: 56008
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
105 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 envelope, 3 maps
(44.5 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
United States. Department of Commerce
Creator:
Hunt, Edward E. (Edward Eyre), 1885-1953
Creator:
United States. Department of Labor
Creator:
United States. War Production Board
Creator:
Conference on Unemployment (Location of meeting: Washington, D.C. Date of meeting or treaty signing: 1921.)
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.
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[Identification of item], Edward Eyre Hunt Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Notes
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 |
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 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. Includes handwritten and typewritten manuscripts and drafts
of books, speeches and articles by Edward E. Hunt. Includes photographs.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
International relief
World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief
World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
Economists
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Reconstruction (1914-1939)
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1920
Unemployed -- United States
Commission for Relief in Belgium (1914-1930)
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
American National Red Cross
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
United States. President's Emergency Committee for Employment