Disaster Response and Appointment of a Recovery Czar : The Executive Branch's Response to the Flood of 1927.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster relief.

Executive advisory bodies.

Floods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (14 pages, digital, PDF file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Provides historical account of Federal disaster response to the Mississippi River flood of 1927, including an assessment of the executive branch response thereto, in which President Calvin Coolidge created a quasi-governmental commission, consisting of Cabinet members and the American National Red Cross, to encourage the public to donate funds to the relief effort, and provided Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover near-absolute authority to organize and oversee disaster relief efforts.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Disaster Response and Appointment of a Recovery Czar

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