A&M 2194Oscar Clemens Stine Interview Transcript, 1884-1951 A&M 2194Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-08-30 08:05:06 -0400.EnglishDescribing Archives: A Content Standard West Virginia and Regional History Center Oscar Clemens Stine Interview Transcript Stine, O. C. (Oscar Clemen), 1884-1974 A&M 2194 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/2/resources/5874 0.2 Linear Feet Summary: 2 in. 1884-1951 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. West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/ English Conditions Governing Access

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 Italy Germany Jackson County (W. Va.) Soviet Union Arthurdale (W. Va.) Arthurdale Homestead Project. Poetry. New Deal, 1933-1939 Depression. Universities and colleges Agriculture United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration United States. Department of Agriculture United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics Agricultural History Society Gore, Howard M. Roosevelt, Theodore. Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 Silver, Gray. Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 Stine, O. C. (Oscar Clemen), 1884-1974 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 Wallace, Henry.