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...warehouses and onto the toast. Among the possibilities is a "Rexall" or 1? sale, in which surplus butter would be sold to consumers for 1? a Ib. if they bought a pound or two of newly produced butter at the regular price. Another possibility is a Brannan-like direct-subsidy plan, under which butter would find its price level in the market, and the Government would pay dairymen the difference between that price and a predetermined parity level. Still another: the old New Deal food stamp plan, to distribute the surplus to needy families at a cut rate...
...raisers know what happened to hogs last year," said Benson. "They were selling for 16? a pound a year ago -only 77% of parity. There was some agitation for hog supports then. But Secretary Brannan at that time didn't think supports were feasible . . . What did farmers do when they knew there would be no price supports . . .? You bred 12% fewer sows for spring farrow this year-5% fewer sows for fall farrow. And hog prices bounced back quickly. Some of you sold hogs here in Chicago this week for $24 . . . Doesn't this make a pretty good...
...Scandinavian district, had more personal standing than his opponent. No orator but an accomplished handshaker, he brought in an array of outsiders to speak for him: Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who was Johnson's candidate for President last year, and two former Secretaries of Agriculture, Charles Brannan and Claude Wickard. He also had a recorded endorsement from Adlai Stevenson. Johnson pitched it as a straight anti-Republican campaign: "Stop the Republican Recession...
...Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson cried: "They began with the giveaways . . . They backed away from any number of their campaign programs . . . They want to dream away the Russian menace . . . The giveaway, back-away, dream-away of 1953 will become the vote-away of 1954." ¶ Ex-Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan told 200 newspaper editors assembled in Boulder, Colo.: "You can't produce prosperity through scarcity, but it looks as if the present Administration is going to try it." ¶ Democratic National Chairman Steve Mitchell, off on a twelve-day speaking tour through the West, said in Tacoma, Wash, that...
...nationwide depression. The Government restricted production during the early New Deal, when Henry Wallace's farm policy called for killing pigs and plowing under every third row of cotton. The Democrats later switched from a policy of scarcity to one of abundance-and Government buying of surpluses. Charles Brannan, Truman's Secretary of Agriculture, said: "I would never lose a wink of sleep if my policies led me to overproduction of some crops." Brannan had the happy experience of operating largely in the years of almost insatiable markets. World War II, European reconstruction and the Korean war brought...