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In March 1929 a questionnaire was distributed among University of Missouri students to measure their attitudes towards marriage. This text explores how this psychology project, a seemingly innocuous questionnaire, could have caused a statewide uproar that attracted national attention.

One of the largest cotton planters in the United States, Oscar G. Johnston of Mississippi (1880-1955) became King Cotton's most effective advocate during the New Deal era. In this biography, Lawrence J. Nelson explores Johnston's long career and the critical role he played in shaping public policy toward a vital but depressed industry.In 1927, the year of the Great Mississippi River Flood, Johnston became president of the largely British-owned...