Word: brannans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After supporting much of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Russell broke sharply with the Truman Administration, supported the Taft-Hartley law, opposed the Brannan farm plan. On civil rights, he has followed the Southern line without deviation, defending segregation, the filibuster and the poll tax, opposing FEPC. Arguing that "interfering" Northerners don't understand the problem, he once proposed that the South trade 1,500,000 Negroes for an equal number of Northern whites to "equalize" the racial problem. "My idea is that a good deal of civil-rights legislation should be called 'civil-wrongs' legislation...
Horseplay. After Warren's report, Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan piously cried "politics." The uproar was as noisy and as flimsy, he said, as "crackers thrown into...
...last week, after GAO filed its report, Brannan appeared before a Senate agriculture committee in a humbler mood. He apologized for his earlier crack about politics, admitted that CCC had known about the shortages at the time. They were worse than GAO had estimated; Brannan testified that they, might run as high as $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. Some 30 warehouse operators are involved. Twelve have been hauled into court already, and investigation of the rest is in the works. The Agriculture Department also revealed that one Nebraska grain-elevator owner shot himself two days after...
...Management. When the grain crop fell off last year and prices rose, the Government began reclaiming its crops to sell. When it found that some warehouses couldn't honor their receipts, the scandal broke. To Brannan the shortages seemed piddling compared to the $10 billion in crops stored by CCC during the past three years. Said Brannan lightheartedly: "Five million dollars worth [of grain] could almost slip through cracks in the floor." Furthermore, he was pleased that no one in the committee had accused Agriculture of skulduggery. Said he as he left the hearing: "Our case is made. They...
...padlocks. One man opened the first lock, another the second. Then for almost five hours, they pulled sealed envelopes from the box, tore them open, and carefully tabulated reports from farmers all over the U.S. A few minutes before n, the guards unlocked the doors, admitted Agriculture Secretary Charlie Brannan. Once he had examined the totals, signed his name and marched out again, the doors were thrown open. In came a dozen reporters to get the Crop Reporting Board's latest estimate of the size of the U.S. cotton crop. The estimate: 15.3 million bales...