Reminiscences of Samuel B. Bledsoe, 1954.

Biographical Note

Agriculturist

Scope and Contents

Childhood 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

Subjects

• Agricultural administration.
• Agriculturists--Interviews.
• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Bledsoe, Sam--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Journalism.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Department of Agriculture.
• World War, 1939-1945--Food supply.

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