Word: brannans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress) predicted that the Benson wheat program would bring "lower prices and the largest crop in the history of the world." Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless, vice-presidential hopeful recently picked to be a farm expert by the Democratic Advisory Council, worked away in Des Moines on a Brannan-style farm plan that will call for direct production payments to farmers and tightened controls...
...hard and earnestly. He pushed his Kennedy-Ervin labor bill ("We will find out in the Senate who is anti-racketeering and who is merely anti-labor-who wants a law this year and who wants a campaign issue for next year"). He proposed a Kennedy refinement of the Brannan farm plan. He hammered the Administration for "no new ideas, no bold action, no blare of bugles." Kennedy impressed crowds and seemingly, most of the state's Democratic leaders-apart from Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson, who leans toward Stevenson or Humphrey. Said State Chairman Pat Lucey...
...Brannan Revisited. The failure of Congress and the Administration to cope with the farm scandal has revived talk among Democrats about the once-buried Brannan plan, devised in 1949 by Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan (now general counsel of the left-wing Farmers Union). Under that scheme, the farmer would sell his crops on the free market, and the Federal Government would send him periodic checks to make up the difference between market prices and support prices. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge is sponsoring a Brannan-type measure to cover the six "basics" (wheat, corn, cotton...
...subsidy scandal has long since ceased to be a problem to be settled by so-called farm experts. It is a $7 billion drain on the national treasury in a day when the Administration is scratching for money to buy missiles. Whether the Agriculture Secretary's name is Brannan or Benson -or Moses-the farm subsidy problem has become an ever-growing national problem with a direct effect on the national welfare...
...campaign, when President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon flailed at the Democrats as radicals, the near-unanimous Democratic reply was "Who? Me?" Few if any farm-belt Democrats campaigned for a return to Henry Wallace's Milk for Hottentots days or for the Truman Administration's Brannan Plan. Few marched to victory as all-out defenders of labor faith; indeed the great majority argued for reasonable labor reform. Where Democrats did get tagged as horseback liberals, they often lost, e.g., in Massachusetts, John Saltonstall Jr. and James M. Burns, both members of Americans for Democratic Action, were defeated...