Childhood and education; newspaper work in Memphis, 1921-23, and Washington, D.C., 1928-35; Agricultural Adjustment Administration Information Section, 1935-40; assistant to Vice President Henry Wallace, 1941; assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Wickard: preparing for war; commodity production and price ceilings; Farm Bureau Federation and the Farmers' Union; political influence of the Department of Agriculture; Pearl Harbor, reorganization and prices; control of food production and agricultural manpower; War Production Board; congressional relations; relations of the Farm Security Administration with labor and the political left; production and supply of farm machinery; control of the War Food Administration; departmental reorganization, November, 1942; Herbert W. Parisius and the Food Production Administration; Gardner Jackson; Claude Wickard as War Food Administrator, 1941-43; work with New York TIMES, US NEWS, National Cotton Council, National Association of Manufacturers, 1943-53
Agriculturists; Journalists; World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; New Deal, 1933-1939; Agricultural administration; Journalism; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; Bledsoe, Sam; United States. Department of Agriculture