Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Samuel B. Bledsoe, 1954.
Creator: | Bledsoe, Sam | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 689 pages Sound recording 1 reel Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteAgriculturist
Scope and ContentsChildhood and education; newspaper work in Memphis, 1921-23, and Washington, D.C., 1928-35; Agricultural Adjustment Administration Information Section, 1935-40; assistant to Vice President Henry Wallace, 1941; assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Wickard: preparing for war; commodity production and price ceilings; Farm Bureau Federation and the Farmers' Union; political influence of the Department of Agriculture; Pearl Harbor, reorganization and prices; control of food production and agricultural manpower; War Production Board; congressional relations; relations of the Farm Security Administration with labor and the political left; production and supply of farm machinery; control of the War Food Administration; departmental reorganization, November, 1942; Herbert W. Parisius and the Food Production Administration; Gardner Jackson; Claude Wickard as War Food Administrator, 1941-43; work with New York TIMES, US NEWS, National Cotton Council, National Association of Manufacturers, 1943-53
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972
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