Word: brannans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats made what hay they could out of discontent on the farm. Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler last week proposed 90% parity for basic crops on family-size farms, plus the extension of supports to hogs, eggs, poultry, beef cattle, whole milk and butterfat. Democrats generally favor the Brannan Plan, under which the farmers would sell their goods in the marketplace for what they could get, and the Government would make up the difference to a predetermined "fair return." Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, still recovering from a heart attack, announced that new farm price-supports would be a first...
...dropped 10% in the past year.* As a result, the Department of Agriculture seemed to have a choice of three courses: 1) apply more and tougher controls on acreage; 2) adopt an entirely different kind of farm program, e.g., a subsidy for the agricultural end product (the old Brannan Plan), or 3) try to improve the market for U.S. farm products overseas...
...when aging Ed O'Neal retired, the strongest farm lobby in the U.S. replaced O'Neal with Allan Blair Kline, a prosperous Iowa hog farmer (who had managed well enough during the Depression to build a swimming pool on his farm). Kline damned controls, helped kill the Brannan Farm Plan and then helped Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson push a flexible price-support law through Congress this year. Last week at the Farm Bureau's annual convention at New York, President Kline announced he was resigning because of ill health. In this change of leadership, however...
...past, although they favor his opponent this year. It is a liberal record, particularly on issues of foreign policy, welfare and civil rights. But it is far from "left-wing," as his votes on two key issues indicate: he voted for the Taft-Hartley law; he voted against the Brannan Plan. In 1948 he helped Richard Nixon draft the Mundt-Nixon subversives-control bill. The Case record does not follow any party line; it follows the conscience of thinking, independent, careful Clifford Case...
...distributors at very low prices might have helped but at best it would merely slow the piling up of surpluses and cost the U.S. $100 million just to administer. Likeliest of all, said Benson, was a "plant payment plan" that would operate much like a version of the old Brannan plan. Under the plant payment plan, the Government would allow the market price of butter to drop to its natural level, then pay butter manufacturers the difference between market and support level prices. Even the best of the plans, said Benson, would cost the Government from...