Reminiscences of Robert Hazen Shields, 1954.

Biographical Note

Agriculturist

Scope and Contents

Early life; University of Nebraska; Harvard Law School; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; peanut program, 1935 "purge," sugar program, 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act; Office of Solicitor, Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Adjustment Administration and conservation, crop insurance, regional problems, Commodity Credit Corporation; Office of the Secretary of Agriculture: prices, ceilings, and production in wartime, Office of Price Administration, Farm Security Administration, private farm organizations, Steagall amendment to 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1941 "Omnibus Bill," relations with wartime agencies; personalities in the Agriculture Department during the New Deal and early war years

Subjects

• Agriculture--United States.
• Agriculturists--Interviews.
• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Shields, Robert H., 1905-1991--Interviews.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
• United States. Department of Agriculture.
• United States. Farm Security Administration.
• United States. Office of Price Administration.
• World War, 1939-1945.

Access Conditions

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