Reminiscences of Marvin Jones, 1953

Biographical Note

Jurist, legislator

Scope and Contents

Youth and education; early law practice in Amarillo, Texas; United States Congress; World War I; legislative organization and procedure; farm legislation; Farm Bureau; National Grange; Farmers' Union; McNary-Haugen Bill; House Agricultural Committee; state and national elections, 1928-1940; Agricultural Adjustment Act; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; Emergency Farm Mortgage Act; Farm Credit Act; Federal Farm Bankruptcy Act; Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act; Resettlement Administration; Office of Economic Stabilization; War Food Administration; President, Hot Springs Food Conference, 1943; War Food Administration, 1943-1945; United States Court of Claims; impressions of Henry A. Wallace, George Peek, James F. Byrnes, Claude Wickard, Chester Davis, and others

Subjects

• Agriculture--United States.
• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Jones, Marvin, 1882-1976--Interviews.
• Judges--Interviews.
• Legislators--United States--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Congress. House.
• United States. Court of Claims.
• World War, 1939-1945.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972