Reminiscences of Carl Hamilton, 1953.

Biographical Note

Agricultural journalist; interviewee b. 1914

Scope and Contents

Early life in rural Iowa; move to Wisconsin, life of Moneta community; 4-H work; Iowa State College; journalistic activity; Agricultural Adjustment Administration information work, New Deal; assistant to Secretary of Agriculture, Claude Wickard, 1940-1942; 1939 "corn problem"; assistant to Food Administrator, 1942-1943; assistant on Rural Electrification Administration matters, 1943-1945; impressions of Henry A. Wallace, M.L. Wilson, Harry Brown, Rudolph Evans, Paul Appleby, Milo Perkins, Joe Storm; discussion of relationship between Claude Wickard and Franklin D. Roosevelt

Subjects

• Agriculture and state.
• Agriculturists--Interviews.
• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Hamilton, Carl--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
• United States. Department of Agriculture.

Access Conditions

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