Agriculture in an Uneasy World

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Title:
Agriculture in an Uneasy World
Description:
Produced by WMSB-TV, Michigan State University, East Lansing, AGRICULTURE IN AN UNEASY WORLD is a sixty-minute edited version of a two-hour and fifteen minute remote broadcast from Jenison Fieldhouse on the Michigan State campus during "Farmer's Week" (February 1, 1961). This program marks the first time that five former secretaries of agriculture have appeared on the same platform for a non-political discussion of the nation's agriculture. The first six minutes of Agriculture in an Uneasy World is devoted to an introduction of the program and a brief sketch of each of the secretaries. Then, highlights of the introductory speeches are excerpted for approximately eleven minutes, with the remaining forty minutes devoted to the question-and-answer session that followed. The panel of agricultural specialties and newsmen who served as interrogators were: Lauren Soth, editorial page editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune; Carroll Streeter, editor of the Farm Journal; Milton Grinnell, editor of the Michigan Farmer; and Dale Hathaway, professor of agricultural economics at Michigan State University. Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture from 1933 to 1940 was editor of Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead from 1929 to 1933. After serving one term as Vice President of the United States (1941-1945), he became Secretary of Commerce from 1945 to 1946 and was the Progressive Party candidate for President in 1948. Claude Raymond Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture from 1940 to 1950 became chief of the Corn and Hog Section of the Agriculture Adjustment Administration in 1935. After rising through the ranks of the AAA, he became its Director in 1937.Clinton Presha Anderson was Secretary of Agriculture from 1945 until 1948. Before that he was reporter, insurance agent, treasurer of the State of New Mexico, administrator of the New Mexico Relief Administration, chairman of the New Mexico Unemployment Compensation Commission, and United States Representative from New Mexico. Since 1948 he has been a United States Senator from New Mexico. Charles Franklin Brannan was Secretary of Agriculture from 1948 until 1953. He practiced law in Denver until he became regional attorney for the Resettlement Administration of the USDA in 1935. After further appointments he became, in 1944 Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. He is presently a practicing attorney in Denver. Ezra Taft Benson was Secretary of Agriculture from 1953 to 1961. Between 1923 and 1938, he held several positions in agriculture. In 1939 he became executive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. He was also on the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Cooperatives. He is currently active as an official in the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) 30 minute program, produced in 1961 by WMSB, originally shot on videotape.
Production company:
WMSB
Speaker:
Wickard, Claude Raymond
Speaker:
Brannan, Charles Franklin
Panelist:
Grinnell, Milton
Speaker:
Anderson, Clinton Presha
Panelist:
Streeter, Carroll
Speaker:
Wallace, Henry Agard
Speaker:
Benson, Ezra Taft
Panelist:
Hathaway, Dale
Narrator:
Downey, Rob
Panelist:
Soth, Lauren
Producer:
Page, Robert
Date:
April 2, 1961
Format:
Film/Video
Genre:
Special
Event Coverage
Location:
Library of Congress
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
Library of Congress
Subjects:
Agriculture
Extent:
01:01:13.804
Link to Item:
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-gh9b56f372
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