Benjamin Shannon Allen papers, 1910-1967.

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Benjamin Shannon Allen papers, 1910-1967.

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Correspondence, press releases, clippings, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to activities of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, United States Food Administration and United States Fuel Administration during World War I, and of the National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies and Finnish Relief Fund during World War II, to political conditions in the United States, and to Herbert Hoover.

3 ms. boxes, 1 cu. ft. box, 2 album boxes, 2 envelopes.

Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8133209

Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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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...

Commission for relief in Belgium

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Private organization for provision of relief to Belgium during World War I. From the description of Commission for Relief in Belgium records, 1914-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868092 Private American relief organization; affiliate of the National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies. From the description of Commission for Relief in Belgium records, 1939-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867226 Historic...

National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies.

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United States Food Administration

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American food regulatory agency. From the description of Food Administration records, 1917-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866949 Organized in 1917; managed civilian food production, distribution, conservation and pricing during World War I; using both volunteers and a paid staff, accomplished its work in New Jersey through an enforcement division, through committees representing different food trades, through county-level food administrators and through publicity ef...

Finnish Relief Fund

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American charitable organization for provision of relief to Finland during the Russo-Finnish War. From the description of Finnish Relief Fund records, 1939-1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867229 Historical Note (From Herbert Hoover, An American Epic, Volume IV) In the Stalin-Hitler alliance of August 23, 1939, Stalin had exacted as part of his share in conquest the annexation of the helpless Baltic Sta...

Allen, Benjamin Shannon, 1883-1963.

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American journalist. From the description of Benjamin Shannon Allen papers, 1910-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868906 ...

United States. Fuel Administration

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American governmental wartime regulatory agency. From the description of Fuel Administration miscellaneous records, 1916-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869838 ...