Reminiscences of Herbert W. Parisius : oral history, 1954.

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Reminiscences of Herbert W. Parisius : oral history, 1954.

Youth and education; ministry and teaching; Farm Security Administration; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; head of Food Production Board under Claude Wickard; in North Africa with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; Foreign Economic Administration; Department of Commerce.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

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