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North & South Ag. The domain that plain Charles Brannan presides over is one of the largest duchies in the peacetime federal bureaucracy. With 72,000 employees sprinkled across the nation, Agriculture eats through a $734 million budget for operations alone-a long jump from the days when Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin sent home seeds and plant cuttings from abroad and George Washington vainly urged Congress to spend money to promote agriculture...
...that moment, Charles Franklin Brannan stepped from behind his potted fern. Those who know Brannan as a sincere and honest man, comparatively unsullied by the politician's instinct, swear that it was coincidence; those who know politics call it fine timing. Anyway, in Charlie's hand was the Brannan Plan. It was rigged with something for the consumer as well as the farmer. The plan would guarantee farmers a tremendous, slightly varying total income each year (about $26 billion-or its equivalent in purchasing power). Brannan's Plan had a lot of hooks...
...differences. If, for example, the price of eggs were pegged at 45? and the farmer could sell his for only 35? a dozen in the market, the Government would give him the extra 10?. Instead of paying twice for farm support, in taxes and high prices, said Brannan smoothly, the taxpayer would pay only once, in taxes...
...Tests. By last week, the U.S. had had 14 months to examine Charlie Brannan's machine and study its insides. The two major farmers' organizations, the 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation and the 820,000-member National Grange had taken one look and gone to war against it; only the 500,000-member National Farmers Union was for it. The Congress had sniffed in horror, refused to make even a small test of the Brannan Plan, reverted instead to another year of rigidly high parity supports to be followed next year-maybe-by a halfhearted...
...despite high prices and high supports-had bounced downward about 20%. This was mostly a natural decline from artificial alltime price highs in wartime, but, citing the price drops in a direful voice, the President implied that it wouldn't happen again-provided the farmers voted for the Brannan Plan and, incidentally, the Democrats...