| Summary |
Government official, agricultural journalist. Topics include: 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 Secretarty of Agriculture Wickard; preparing for war; commodity production and price ceilings; Farm Bureau Federation and the Farmers' Union; political influence of the Dept. 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 NY Times, US News. National Cotton Council, National Association of Manufacturers. |
