Word: brannaned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curse. For months, Sawyer had been making the chicken-a-la-king circuit of businessmen's luncheons, often talking "off the record," but to big crowds, of the need for reducing Government spending. He even ventured some tentative criticism of the Administration's Brannan Plan. Last week for all to hear, he briskly announced: "The President has requested me to take the lead in designing a program to preserve and strengthen free enterprise...
...Farmers: "The Brannan plan is a fraud on its face because it seeks to guarantee high prices to the farmer as well as the price the consumer would be willing to pay, with the difference being met by the taxpayer. It is a fraud because the farmer and the consumer are the taxpayers...
...first, the American Farm Bureau Federation; the third, the left-wing Farmers' Union, supports the Brannan plan...
Last week at its convention in Sacramento, the National Grange, second largest of the three main U.S. farm groups,*condemned the Brannan plan and went beyond; it also questioned many of the chief points in the whole support program. It called the Brannan program "an internal cancer that would ultimately destroy our free enterprise system...
...Brannan plan," said the Grange, "has totally undesirable political implications . . . That party which would promise farmers the largest bonus out of the Treasury would garner many votes not obtainable on ... an honest, sound platform. It would then become a race to see which party would promise most...