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
Government executives--United States; Agriculturists--United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; Agriculture--United States; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; Wilson, M. L. (Milburn Lincoln), 1885-1969; United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics; United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration; United States. Department of the Interior; United States. Farm Security Administration; United States. Resettlement Administration