Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Notes formation of the Farm Paper Bloc by 60 editors of agricultural publications attending a national agricdultural conference. Herbert Myrick of Springfield, Massachusetts, was cited as source.
UI electronic subscription, Author analyzes the history, methods and impact of a radio program, "We say what we think," produced by a group of Dane County rural women during this period. Offers perspectives on how the Extension Service encouraged domesticity as the role of rural women. "Linking domesticity to the trope of progress in this way kept rural women from discussing the changes taking place around them." Author also comments on marginalization of rural sociology as a discipline in the academy.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36842
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 12, Page 2, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois, October 18, 1933., A director, W.G. Campbell, calls attention to conflicting statements about the age of APA. Cites an unbroken succession from the Corn Belt Association and the Farm Press Club, an existence of about 30 years.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14038
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Chapter 7 in Crispin C. Maslog, Philippine Communication: an introduction. Philippine Association of Communication Educators, Los Banos. 1988. 375 pages.
Includes an anecdote about USDA information officer John Baker's response to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy after receiving a letter questioning some of the statements Baker was assumed to have made, as supposed evidence he was sympathetic to Communism. Another anecdote involves food served in a USDA buffet.
