Reminiscences of William Lockhart Clayton, 1962

Biographical Note

Cotton executive, government official

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education in Mississippi; Jerome Hill and the cotton business; Anderson, Clayton and Co.; Congressional investigations; New Deal agricultural policy; Liberty League; John W. Davis, Jesse Jones, Nelson Rockefeller, Henry Wallace, Edward Stettinius, James Byrnes, George Marshall, the Marshall Plan

Subjects

• Agricultural administration.
• Clayton, Will, 1880-1966--Interviews.
• Cotton manufacture.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975