Hunt, Edward E. (Edward Eyre), 1885-1953

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Dates:
Birth 1885
Death 1953
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Biographical notes:

Edward Eyre Hunt (1885-1953), Harvard graduate, war correspondent, and author, was a member of the Committee on Elimination of Waste in Industry, Federated American Engineering Societies in 1920. He served as secretary of the U.S. Coal Commission from 1922 to 1923, and was secretary of the President's Emergency Committee on Employment from 1930 to 1931. From 1930 to 1933, he served as secretary of the President's Research Committee on Recent Social Trends.

From the description of Hunt, Edward E. (Edward Eyre), 1885-1953 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10611388

American economist; member, Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1914-1916; Red Cross relief worker, 1917-1918; secretary, President's Conference on Unemployment, 1921; secretary, President's Emergency Committee for Employment, 1930-1931; chief industrial economist, War Production Board, 1942-1943.

From the description of Edward Eyre Hunt papers, 1902-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868926

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

From the guide to the Edward Eyre Hunt Papers, 1902-1953, (Hoover Institution Archives)

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Subjects:

  • International relief
  • Presidents
  • Presidents
  • Reconstruction (1914-1939)
  • Reconstruction (1939-1951)
  • Unemployed
  • Unemployed
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945

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  • Economists

Places:

  • Belgium (as recorded)
  • Belgium. (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)