Word: brannans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upsurge of conservatism in the Midwest. Voters were alarmed by Government spending, higher taxes, the suspicion that the State Department had played footie with Communists within its own organization and in Asia. They were suspicious of what Harry Truman might do with his oft-repeated Fair Deal program-the Brannan Plan, repeal of Taft-Hartley, etc.-if he got full control of the 82nd Congress. Republicans swam in the conservative tide and rode it to the beach...
...willing to play the role of presidential advocate. Compromise candidates were discussed: Wyoming's New Dealing O'Mahoney, 66, sharp and shrewd but in poor health; New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, 55, a faithful party man but solidly opposed to Mr. Truman on the Brannan Plan; Arizona's Ernest McFarland, 56, meek and mild and notably neutral...
...right. On the left, Senators Claude Pepper, Frank Graham and Glen Taylor had already gone down to defeat, and in California, Helen Gahagan Douglas was having a hard time living down her past votes with the same crowd. Many Democrats had ducked, or discarded, such controversial notions as the Brannan Plan or socialized medicine in their scramble for the middle of the road. With their differences thus narrowed in so many races, it was more than ever an election that turned on the candidate himself-and on the independent voters...
...Iowa, the Democrats were perking up. Their senatorial candidate was Al Loveland, who quit his job as Under Secretary of Agriculture to campaign on the Brannan Plan, and then decided not to mention it at all. Instead, he incessantly reminded farmers of 10? corn and 2? hogs back in 1932, and tried to tag Republican Bourke Hickenlooper, a Cedar Rapids lawyer, as the candidate of big business and a man uninterested in the farmer's problems. Republicans were worried...
...labor movement is trying to take over the Democratic Party . . . Do you want people outside the state telling you how to vote? The Administration wants a rubber-stamp Congress. If it gets one, we will have nationalization of medicine and every other welfare service ... I say the Brannan Plan is a fraud. They promise high prices for the farmer and low prices for the consumer, but they don't tell what would happen in between. It would cost the taxpayer about $5 billion a year. And who are the taxpayers? They are the same farmers and consumers...