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...proposed parking lot is the former Brannan property, situated opposite Leverett House on DeWolfe St., which the University bought in December, with the adjoining...
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...
...Brannan's action brought quick protests from abroad. Canada's National Dairy Council proposed retaliation in the form of a ban on U.S. vegetable oils used in margarine. Said the Swedish Dairy Association's export boss Bengt Dock: "This is an example of giving to Europe with one hand and taking with the other." Harry Truman sought to make political propaganda. Said he: "This is the kind of law which makes the job of the Kremlin's propaganda experts a great deal easier...
...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...
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