Word: brannans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling is that as far as you can tell at this long distance, there are three main issues. One is the restoration of a program of progress within the principles of liberty rather than the principles of socialism ... I think that that includes the whole field of the Brannan Plan, socialized medicine and all of the other regulatory measures of the Truman Administration . . . We need the restoration of a program to accomplish the continuation of progress that had been made under American principles in the past. Number two, I think, is the restoration of a government of honesty and integrity...
...Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan...
...Democrats' greatest assets, cried Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan in the prize tub-thumping speech of the meeting, were four particularly awful Republicans. He named Robert Taft, Congressman Joe Martin, Washington's Senator Harry Cain and Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy ("whose name will live . . . in monstrous infamy . . . Lynch . . . Boycott . . . Quisling and McCarthyism!"). Oklahoma's flamboyant Robert S. Kerr branded the G.O.P. a war party: "They are feeling sicker every day . . . Mac-Arthuritis...
Last week, Brannan's own Bureau of Agricultural Economics sang a different tune. Said the bureau: prices of farm land are now the highest in history; farm land jumped 14% between March 1950 and March 1951. "The upward pressure on farm land prices," continued the bureau, "has naturally been strongest in those areas where prospects of higher farm income in 1951 and later appear to be the most promising." In corn-rich Iowa last week, farm land was selling for $400 an acre, compared to $350 last year; from Ohio westward to South Dakota, swollen farm prices boomed real...
...Williams unearthed another odd example of Government arithmetic last week. In April 1950, said the Senator, the Air Force leased a Government aircraft plant to the National Terminals Corp. of Cleveland for $2,083 a month. National Terminals turned around and rented it for $12,000 a month to Brannan's Commodity Credit Corp. as a storehouse for 359 carloads of surplus beans. By October 1950, when the Defense Department reoccupied the plant, CCC had paid National Terminals $58,602 in rent. Net profit to National Terminals for leasing storage space from one U.S. agency and renting...