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...Jersey & Civil Rights. New Jersey outdid even Texas in its welcome. In the elevenmile drive from Hackensack to Paterson (a strongly unionized area), some 150,000 people turned out. Stopping in town after town, Eisenhower attacked Washington corruption, the Brannan Plan, and (somewhat surprisingly) the withholding tax-which, he said, fooled the people. At Newark he hit back hard at Harry Truman. Main points...
Williams tried to get the Senate to pass a resolution demanding the books. Senator Scott Lucas "made a big fuss," says Williams, "and then he put into the record a letter from [Secretary of Agriculture] Brannan calling me a liar. Well, I began to wonder if I was right, to tell you the truth...
...policy. Kennedy voted down the line for Democratic social welfare bills, public housing, rent and price controls, and civil rights enforcement; he voted against Taft-Hartley and both McCarran Acts. While this is a creditable box score, it is a stock party-line vote which includes absurdities like the Brannan Plan. The most unusual thing about Congressman Kennedy has been his incredible absentee record which has averaged 29% over the last six years...
Next day it was Stevenson's turn. As usual, he gave a good performance. His English, however, was more polished than plain, and he sidestepped Nixon's specific questions on whether or not he favors Acheson's foreign policy, the Brannan Plan, federal seizure of the tidelands. Comparing Alben Barkley, 74, to Richard Nixon, 39, Stevenson remarked: "The Republican Party is the party which makes even its young men seem old. The Democratic Party is the party which makes even its old men seem young...
...yearbook for 1952, published this week (Insects, U.S. Government Printing Office; $2.50), the Department of Agriculture carries a gloomy bulletin on the war. "Although the science of entomology has made great progress in the last two decades," reports Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, "the problems caused by insects seem to be bigger than ever. We have more insect pests, although we have better insecticides to use against them and better ways to fight them." Insect pests have already survived for 250 million years. And for all man's relentless ingenuity, says the yearbook, "no species of insect...