Reminiscences of Howard Ross Tolley, 1954.

Biographical Note

Agricultural economist

Scope and Contents

Early life and teaching in Indiana; Office of Farm Management; development of bureaus in Department of Agriculture; Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1915-29, 1938-43; Division of Agricultural Engineering; tariff policy; farm organizations; Secretaries Henry A. Wallace and William Jardine; outlook work; Giannini Foundation, University of California, 1930-33, 1935-36; Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1933-35, 1936-38; Office of Price Administration; interim commission of the Food and Agriculture Organization

Subjects

• Agricultural economists--Interviews.
• Agricultural laws and legislation.
• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Tolley, H. R. (Howard Ross), 1889-1958--Interviews.
• United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
• United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
• United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
• United States. Department of Agriculture.

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