Farm Holiday Association Project : oral history, 1960-1961.

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Farm Holiday Association Project : oral history, 1960-1961.

Farm Holiday Association pressure on the New Deal in 1933-34, as recalled by participants, with descriptions of riots and violence, threats of a farm strike, demands for mortgage relief, and impressions of Milo Reno. The memoirs also include material dealing with the United Farmers League and other Communist-sponsored rivals of the Farm Holiday Association. Participants and pagination: John Bosch, 56; Richard Bosch, 27; Homer Hush, 56; Dale Kramer, 23; Donald Murphy, 32.

Transcript: 194 leaves.

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