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...that he capitulated to the hens, Secretary Brannan paid a call on President Truman and paused on the way out of the White House to discuss a Washington rumor with reporters. Since many politicians were claiming that the Brannan Plan was discredited at the polls, was he on his way out of the Cabinet...
Even though the Department of Agriculture last December cut 10? a dozen off the support price of eggs, the farmers and their hens kept cackling away. Obviously, it was time for a hard-boiled solution. Last week it came. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan announced that the Government was canceling egg supports after Dec. 31. (The eggs on hand represented a loss of about $85 million to the Government.) The order also meant that U.S. consumers should be able to get cheaper eggs at the grocery store after New Year...
...upsurge of conservatism in the Midwest. Voters were alarmed by Government spending, higher taxes, the suspicion that the State Department had played footie with Communists within its own organization and in Asia. They were suspicious of what Harry Truman might do with his oft-repeated Fair Deal program-the Brannan Plan, repeal of Taft-Hartley, etc.-if he got full control of the 82nd Congress. Republicans swam in the conservative tide and rode it to the beach...
...willing to play the role of presidential advocate. Compromise candidates were discussed: Wyoming's New Dealing O'Mahoney, 66, sharp and shrewd but in poor health; New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, 55, a faithful party man but solidly opposed to Mr. Truman on the Brannan Plan; Arizona's Ernest McFarland, 56, meek and mild and notably neutral...
...Iowa, the Democrats were perking up. Their senatorial candidate was Al Loveland, who quit his job as Under Secretary of Agriculture to campaign on the Brannan Plan, and then decided not to mention it at all. Instead, he incessantly reminded farmers of 10? corn and 2? hogs back in 1932, and tried to tag Republican Bourke Hickenlooper, a Cedar Rapids lawyer, as the candidate of big business and a man uninterested in the farmer's problems. Republicans were worried...