Reminiscences of Cully Alton Cobb and Wofford B. Camp : oral history, 1966.

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Reminiscences of Cully Alton Cobb and Wofford B. Camp : oral history, 1966.

Detailed account of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration Cotton Section, 1933-1937; establishment of program and work with state extension directors, sources of support and opposition, public and press relations, dispute over landlord-tenant relations; Meyers Report. Recollections of W.B. Camp, Jerome Frank, Chester C. Davis, General Stephen D. Lee, Walter F. George, Henry A. Wallace.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

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