Word: brannans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan reluctantly decided the time had come to start making others besides taxpayers unhappy. He slapped import quotas on dried milk, buttermilk and cream, limiting imports in the first quarter to the level of a year ago-a little more than half the recent rate. Brannan had no choice: under a clause in the Defense Production Act, sponsored by Minnesota's Republican Representative August Andresen, dairy imports must be limited to quantities that will not "result in any unnecessary burden or expenditures under any Government price-support program...
...Washington, hundreds of Government officials got ready to look for new jobs. At the White House, Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson and Attorney General James McGranery interviewed each other for the newsreels. Exchange...
...Brannan Plan...
...Jersey & Civil Rights. New Jersey outdid even Texas in its welcome. In the elevenmile drive from Hackensack to Paterson (a strongly unionized area), some 150,000 people turned out. Stopping in town after town, Eisenhower attacked Washington corruption, the Brannan Plan, and (somewhat surprisingly) the withholding tax-which, he said, fooled the people. At Newark he hit back hard at Harry Truman. Main points...
Williams tried to get the Senate to pass a resolution demanding the books. Senator Scott Lucas "made a big fuss," says Williams, "and then he put into the record a letter from [Secretary of Agriculture] Brannan calling me a liar. Well, I began to wonder if I was right, to tell you the truth...