President's Famine Emergency Committee records, 1946-1947.

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President's Famine Emergency Committee records, 1946-1947.

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Correspondence, reports, notes, and clippings, relating to food conservation in the United States and to famine conditions throughout the world. Includes memoranda and diaries of Herbert Hoover, honorary chairman of the committee. Also available on microfilm (31 reels).

31 ms. boxes, 2 card file boxes, 2 envelopes.

Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8132128

Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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United States. President's Famine Emergency Committee

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American governmental organization for the coordination of international famine relief after World War II. From the description of President's Famine Emergency Committee records, 1946-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867035 Historical Note The Famine Emergency Committee was established on March 1, 1946, by President Harry S. Truman for the purpose of aiding the fight against world famine. Herbert Hoover was named H...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...