The reminiscences of Milburn Lincoln Wilson
Series: N.Y.T. [i.e. New York times oral history program -- 1]; Columbia University oral history collection -- pt. 2, no. 203
Published: 1975
Language: eng
Format: [microform]
Number of pages: 2181
Subjects: Agriculturists; Correspondence, reminiscences; Correspondence; Interviews
Other titles: Wilson, Milburn Lincoln
Description: Agriculturist. Topics include: 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.
Notes: Transcript of interviews conducted for the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University in 1951-1956.

Includes index.

Master microform held by: McA.