Reminiscences of Marvin Jones : oral history, 1953.

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Reminiscences of Marvin Jones : oral history, 1953.

Youth and education; early law practice in Amarillo, Texas; United States Congress; World War I; legislative organization and procedure; farm legislation; Farm Bureau; National Grange; Farmers' Union; McNary-Haugen Bill; House Agricultural Committee; state and national elections, 1928-1940; Agricultural Adjustment Act; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; Emergency Farm Mortgage Act; Farm Credit Act; Federal Farm Bankruptcy Act; Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act; Resettlement Administration; Office of Economic Stabilization; War Food Administration; President, Hot Springs Food Conference, 1943; War Food Administration, 1943-1945; United States Court of Claims; impressions of Henry A. Wallace, George Peek, James F. Byrnes, Claude Wickard, Chester Davis, and others.

Transcript: 1453 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

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