Early life; University of Nebraska; Harvard Law School; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; peanut program, 1935 "purge," sugar program, 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act; Office of Solicitor, Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Adjustment Administration and conservation, crop insurance, regional problems, Commodity Credit Corporation; Office of the Secretary of Agriculture: prices, ceilings , and production in wartime, Office of Price Administration, Farm Security Administration, private farm organizations, Steagall amendment to 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1941 "Omnibus Bill," relations with wartime agencies; personalities in the Agriculture Department during the New Deal and early war years
Agriculturists; New Deal, 1933-1939; Agriculture--United States; World War, 1939-1945; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; Shields, Robert H., 1905-1991; United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration; United States. Office of Price Administration; United States. Farm Security Administration