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...Chair-Warmer. Here, in the concrete, was the glowering, complex malady known as "The Farm Problem." Seated last week in the middle of it, buried to the top of his egg-bald dome in crop surpluses, statistical mousetraps and political pitchforks, was Charles Franklin Brannan, a plain, earnest, city lawyer from Denver, who is the 14th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.* A sturdy (185 lbs.) six-footer with inquisitive brown eyes, a hard-to-ruffle temperament and a scrubbed look, Charlie Brannan had neither farming experience, pocketfuls of votes nor campaign dollars to commend him when Harry Truman plucked him from...
...Charles Brannan, 46, is one of those Cabinet rarities, a career public servant who worked to the top of his department (another: Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson). After two years in the job, Brannan still seems to Washington more the hardworking, second-level Washington bureaucrat than the traditional Cabinet member. His relations with the White House are efficiently firm-he confers with the President a couple of times a week, usually lunches with him on Mondays. But the Secretary of Agriculture has never plunged into the panoply of Cabinet rank, nor has he been taken into the circle of cronies...
...controversy came with the job-running the fantastically costly, jerry-built farm-support machinery imposed on the nation by a generation of vote-conscious Congresses. The rest he brought on himself-by proposing to replace the whole shuddering shebang with a new and equally fantastic contraption known as the Brannan Plan...
About that time Charles Brannan got a job as regional attorney (Montana, Wyoming and Colorado) for the Resettlement Administration. Brannan, the city boy, knew little or nothing about farming; he had only milked some cows and gathered a few eggs in summertime on a cousin's farm. But he traveled the droughtlands by day, traveled the textbook maze of farm economics by night, learning to talk the farmer's language, and the bureaucrat...
...supplies much of the push in the family), kept her schoolteaching job in Denver right up until her husband was transferred to Washington in 1944 (as associate administrator of the Farm Security Administration). Life among the high officials, diplomats and cocktail-sippers of the capital has not damaged the Brannans' pronounced, almost frugal, simplicity. Brannan's conversation is still punctuated by "Lordy" and "gosh," and an occasional ungrammatical "he don't." He and Eda Brannan live in a plain, two-room Washington apartment, with no children and no servant. He bought his first white tie & tails...