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

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)