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...member of the Senate Agriculture Committee had a question to ask Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan. Did he agree with the President's recent comment about the committee? Said Brannan, "Oh, I do, sir. I don't remember what he said, but I agree...
...first, none of this seemed to perturb Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan, but his aide reported that Brannan felt Walker had been guilty of only indiscretions. But this week Clovis Walker suddenly quit his job, denying "any implication of guilt," but adding that to stay on would be "embarrassing to the department and detrimental to my health...
After supporting much of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Russell broke sharply with the Truman Administration, supported the Taft-Hartley law, opposed the Brannan farm plan. On civil rights, he has followed the Southern line without deviation, defending segregation, the filibuster and the poll tax, opposing FEPC. Arguing that "interfering" Northerners don't understand the problem, he once proposed that the South trade 1,500,000 Negroes for an equal number of Northern whites to "equalize" the racial problem. "My idea is that a good deal of civil-rights legislation should be called 'civil-wrongs' legislation...
...last week, after GAO filed its report, Brannan appeared before a Senate agriculture committee in a humbler mood. He apologized for his earlier crack about politics, admitted that CCC had known about the shortages at the time. They were worse than GAO had estimated; Brannan testified that they, might run as high as $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. Some 30 warehouse operators are involved. Twelve have been hauled into court already, and investigation of the rest is in the works. The Agriculture Department also revealed that one Nebraska grain-elevator owner shot himself two days after...
...Management. When the grain crop fell off last year and prices rose, the Government began reclaiming its crops to sell. When it found that some warehouses couldn't honor their receipts, the scandal broke. To Brannan the shortages seemed piddling compared to the $10 billion in crops stored by CCC during the past three years. Said Brannan lightheartedly: "Five million dollars worth [of grain] could almost slip through cracks in the floor." Furthermore, he was pleased that no one in the committee had accused Agriculture of skulduggery. Said he as he left the hearing: "Our case is made. They...