Early life in rural Iowa; move to Wisconsin, life of Moneta community; 4-H work; Iowa State College; journalistic activity; Agricultural Adjustment Administration information work, New Deal; assistant to Secretary of Agriculture, Claude Wickard, 1940-1942; 1939 "corn problem"; assistant to Food Administrator, 1942-1943; assistant on Rural Electrification Administration matters, 1943-1945; impressio ns of Henry A. Wallace, M.L. Wilson, Harry Brown, Rudolph Evans, Paul Appleby, Milo Perkins, Joe Storm; discussion of relationship between Claude Wickard and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Agriculturists; Journalists; New Deal, 1933-1939; Agriculture and state; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; Hamilton, Carl; United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration; United States. Department of Agriculture