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...devices. He did recommend voluntary controls and price supports for potatoes, one of the few freely marketable basic crops left in the national larder. And to the consternation of many, Johnson called for a return to part of the controversial and soundly defeated plan proposed by Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan in 1949: direct Treasury payment to cotton and milk producers...
...Hazel Brannan Smith, who runs a small weekly in Durant, Miss.? She knows what it means to attack a corrupt political machine, to have her shop bombed, to be shot at-to print the truth when a law man shot a Negro in the back at close range and then used the old alibi "he was trying to escape...
...Congress) predicted that the Benson wheat program would bring "lower prices and the largest crop in the history of the world." Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless, vice-presidential hopeful recently picked to be a farm expert by the Democratic Advisory Council, worked away in Des Moines on a Brannan-style farm plan that will call for direct production payments to farmers and tightened controls...
...hard and earnestly. He pushed his Kennedy-Ervin labor bill ("We will find out in the Senate who is anti-racketeering and who is merely anti-labor-who wants a law this year and who wants a campaign issue for next year"). He proposed a Kennedy refinement of the Brannan farm plan. He hammered the Administration for "no new ideas, no bold action, no blare of bugles." Kennedy impressed crowds and seemingly, most of the state's Democratic leaders-apart from Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson, who leans toward Stevenson or Humphrey. Said State Chairman Pat Lucey...
...subsidy scandal has long since ceased to be a problem to be settled by so-called farm experts. It is a $7 billion drain on the national treasury in a day when the Administration is scratching for money to buy missiles. Whether the Agriculture Secretary's name is Brannan or Benson -or Moses-the farm subsidy problem has become an ever-growing national problem with a direct effect on the national welfare...