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Horseplay. After Warren's report, Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan piously cried "politics." The uproar was as noisy and as flimsy, he said, as "crackers thrown into...
...padlocks. One man opened the first lock, another the second. Then for almost five hours, they pulled sealed envelopes from the box, tore them open, and carefully tabulated reports from farmers all over the U.S. A few minutes before n, the guards unlocked the doors, admitted Agriculture Secretary Charlie Brannan. Once he had examined the totals, signed his name and marched out again, the doors were thrown open. In came a dozen reporters to get the Crop Reporting Board's latest estimate of the size of the U.S. cotton crop. The estimate: 15.3 million bales...
...feeling is that as far as you can tell at this long distance, there are three main issues. One is the restoration of a program of progress within the principles of liberty rather than the principles of socialism ... I think that that includes the whole field of the Brannan Plan, socialized medicine and all of the other regulatory measures of the Truman Administration . . . We need the restoration of a program to accomplish the continuation of progress that had been made under American principles in the past. Number two, I think, is the restoration of a government of honesty and integrity...
...Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan...
...Democrats' greatest assets, cried Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan in the prize tub-thumping speech of the meeting, were four particularly awful Republicans. He named Robert Taft, Congressman Joe Martin, Washington's Senator Harry Cain and Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy ("whose name will live . . . in monstrous infamy . . . Lynch . . . Boycott . . . Quisling and McCarthyism!"). Oklahoma's flamboyant Robert S. Kerr branded the G.O.P. a war party: "They are feeling sicker every day . . . Mac-Arthuritis...