Reminiscences of Robert Hazen Shields : oral history, 1954.

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Reminiscences of Robert Hazen Shields : oral history, 1954.

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Early life; University of Nebraska; Harvard Law School; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; peanut program, 1935 "purge," sugar program, 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act; Office of Solicitor, Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Adjustment Administration and conservation, crop insurance, regional problems, Commodity Credit Corporation; Office of the Secretary of Agriculture: prices, ceilings, and production in wartime, Office of Price Administration, Farm Security Administration, private farm organizations, Steagall amendment to 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1941 "Omnibus Bill," relations with wartime agencies; personalities in the Agriculture Department during the New Deal and early war years.

Transcript: 572 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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