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COLORADO. The state convention met to hear speeches by Stevenson, Kefauver and Harriman, and to pick an uninstructed 20-vote delegation which leans strongly to Adlai. Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan and ex-Congressman John Carroll got approval to fight it out for the Democratic senatorial nomination in a Sept. 11 primary. The winner will square off against ailing Republican Eugene Millikin in November...
After months of speculation, Democrat Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture under Harry Truman, and now general counsel of the National Farmers Union, announced in Denver last week that he will seek the U.S. Senate seat held for the past 14 years by Colorado Republican Eugene Millikin. Confined to a wheelchair by arthritis and complications. Millikin, 65, has announced that he will run again. But the G.O.P., facing hard opposition from Brannan, is expected to urge Senator Millikin to withdraw in favor of a candidate who could conduct a more vigorous campaign. A leading choice of the politicos, if Gene...
...weeks Frank McKinney, the Indianapolis banker once described by Truman as "the best national chairman the Democratic Party ever had," has been working for Harriman. Other former Truman associates, e.g., Wisconsin's Democratic Chairman Philleo Nash (a White House aide in 1945-52) and Farmers Union Counsel Charles Brannan (Secretary of Agriculture 1948-52), are privately for Harriman...
...seems higher than its membership: 308,000 family memberships in 25 states, strongest in the wheat-growing states of North Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota. President: loose-jointed, Kansas-born James G. Patton, 53, onetime high-school athletic director. General counsel: ex-President Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Economic adviser: Leon Keyserling, chairman of Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The Farmers Union was organized in Texas in 1902 by a few farmers and a country editor, and was dedicated to improving the lot of low-income "dirt farmers." Today it argues that the American farmer...
...Yardling 'B' team had an easy time of it yesterday afternoon as they stumbled through a 19-8 win over New Prep. Bill Brannan and Chuck sailstad pitched, while Dave Fairburn formed the other half of the battery. The Yardling 'A's' oppose two more tough teams at the end of the week when they take on B.U. on Friday and Dartmouth on Saturday...