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...right. On the left, Senators Claude Pepper, Frank Graham and Glen Taylor had already gone down to defeat, and in California, Helen Gahagan Douglas was having a hard time living down her past votes with the same crowd. Many Democrats had ducked, or discarded, such controversial notions as the Brannan Plan or socialized medicine in their scramble for the middle of the road. With their differences thus narrowed in so many races, it was more than ever an election that turned on the candidate himself-and on the independent voters...
...labor movement is trying to take over the Democratic Party . . . Do you want people outside the state telling you how to vote? The Administration wants a rubber-stamp Congress. If it gets one, we will have nationalization of medicine and every other welfare service ... I say the Brannan Plan is a fraud. They promise high prices for the farmer and low prices for the consumer, but they don't tell what would happen in between. It would cost the taxpayer about $5 billion a year. And who are the taxpayers? They are the same farmers and consumers...
...impending worldwide cotton shortage-and the leanest U.S. cotton crop in four years. Bugs, bad weather and the cut in acreage allotments under the support program had slashed the U.S. crop this year to an estimated 9,869,000 bales from 16,128,000 bales in 1949. Brannan hoped that production could be stepped up again to 16 million bales in 1951. But wiping out controls removed only one obstacle; there were plenty more...
...labor shortage. Southern farm labor has been steadily streaming north to Chicago and Detroit for factory jobs. Most farmers cannot harvest even a normal crop without the help of out-of-area labor, much less the 11 million additional acres they will have to plant to reach Brannan's goal...
...Brannan might also have difficulty getting farmers to appreciate the shortage. He is still collecting fines (more than $500,000 to date) from farmers who exceeded their 1950 marketing quotas. Brannan argued that if fines are suspended now, farmers who had stayed within their limits would be penalized, while those who went over their legal quotas would profit...