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Language
English
Abstract
A revised and indexed transcript copy of an interview with Dr. O.C. Stine, an expert in agricultural economics who was employed
with the Department of Agriculture from the Progressive Era to that of the Fair Deal. Stine tells of his childhood on a farm
in Jackson County, WV, his subsequent education in small town southeastern Ohio where his family moved, and his attendance
and graduation from Ohio University with a bachelors in liberal arts and education. After teaching briefly on the secondary
level agricultural vocation courses, he attained a masters in agricultural economy at the University of Wisconsin. Upon graduation
he went to work in Washington, DC for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, a statistically based research and survey branch
of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. There he pioneered in the establishment of professionalized statistic keeping and
in creating accurate economic forecast indicators. He was also helpful in the creation of various and changing proposals for
parity farm price support programs. Privately, he was a founder of the Agricultural History Society. Of note, he mentions
much interaction with the New Deal agency, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, and his opinion of it. He talks about an
official trip to the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy before World War II and comments on agriculture, the economy
and society in Europe. Also he gives a candid evaluation of the Arthurdale project. Prominent names mentioned are: William
J. Bryan, Calvin Coolidge, Howard M. Gore, Herbert Hoover, Benito Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Gray
Silver, and Henry Wallace.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Oscar Clemens Stine Interview Transcript, A&M 2194, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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