| Title: |
Reminiscences of Milburn Lincoln Wilson
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A185
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Childhood, education; early farming experiences in Nebraska and Montana; dry-farming; Nonpartisan League; grain cooperatives; McNary-Haugen Bill; Fairway Farms Corporation; Department of Agriculture, 1924; advisory trip to Russia, 1929; extension service; Grange, Farmers' Union; Bureau of Agricultural Economics; domestic allotment plans, writing agricultural speeches for Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932; first hundred days; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; land resettlement, use of submarginal land; Division of Subsistence Homesteads in Interior Department, 1933; Arthurdale project; Cuban sugar survey; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, 1934; shelter belts; Farm Security Administration; Roerich expedition, Wallace mysticism; visits of George Russell; Dust Bowl and land use; Department of Agriculture purge; Resettlement Administration; soil conservation; 1936 campaign; Under Secretary of Agriculture, 1937; impressions of many prominent New Deal figures, especially Henry A. Wallace, Rexford Tugwell, Chester Davis.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 2,165 leaves, Tape: 1 reel
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part II, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1956 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Wilson, Milburn Lincoln, 1885-1969
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1885
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| Speaker occupation: |
Agriculturist
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| Age at speaking: |
71
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| Document date: |
1956
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| Interviewer: |
Albertson, Dean, 1920-
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Department of Agriculture; U.S. Department of the Interior
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Agriculture--United States; Government executives--United States; North America; Oral history; U.S. Department of Agriculture; U.S. Department of the Interior; United States; United States--Politics and government--1933-1945
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Agriculturists--United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States--Agricultural Adjustment Administration; United States--Bureau of Agricultural Economics; United States--Farm Security Administration; United States--Resettlement Administration; Wilson, Milburn Lincoln, 1885-1969
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0017770-13213
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