Reminiscences of Milburn Lincoln Wilson, 1956.

Biographical Note

Agriculturist

Scope and Contents

Childhood, education; early farming experiences in Nebraska and Montana; dry-farming; Nonpartisan League; grain cooperatives; McNary-Haugen Bill; Fairway Farms Corporation; Department of Agriculture, 1924; advisory trip to Russia, 1929; extension service; Grange, Farmers' Union; Bureau of Agricultural Economics; domestic allotment plans, writing agricultural speeches for Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932; first hundred days; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; land resettlement, use of submarginal land; Division of Subsistence Homesteads in Interior Department, 1933; Arthurdale project; Cuban sugar survey; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, 1934; shelter belts; Farm Security Administration; Roerich expedition, Wallace mysticism; visits of George Russell; Dust Bowl and land use; Department of Agriculture purge; Resettlement Administration; soil conservation; 1936 campaign; Under Secretary of Agriculture, 1937; impressions of many prominent New Deal figures, especially Henry A. Wallace, Rexford Tugwell, Chester Davis

Subjects

• Agriculture--United States.
• Agriculturists--United States--Interviews.
• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
• United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
• United States. Department of Agriculture.
• United States. Department of the Interior.
• United States. Farm Security Administration.
• United States. Resettlement Administration.
• Wilson, M. L. (Milburn Lincoln), 1885-1969--Interviews.

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