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...Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan, who declared himself "impressed" by the governor's grasp of farm problems, said that farmers are "in a good frame of mind toward Stevenson...
Slapped, Ellis Arnall sounded another warning. The drought in Southern and Eastern states, said the former governor of Georgia, will cause food prices to "skyrocket." His lips were hardly closed before bald Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan baldly contradicted him. Said Brannan: The drought will not drive food prices up; its most serious impact has not been on food crops...
...Democrats. The Administration realizes that inflation, the high and heightening cost of everything, will be an issue when the voters go to the polls Nov. 4. The Administration wants to take the issue from around the Democrats' neck and hang it on the Republicans'. Putnam and Brannan did not agree with Arnall on how that should be done...
...Department of Agriculture moved in smoothly and efficiently. On order of Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan, it designated as disaster areas parts of Missouri and Arkansas and the entire states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maine and Massachusetts. (Maine's Republican commissioner of agriculture, Fred Nutter, snapped that Washington had made Maine a disaster area over his objection. "They wanted us to ask for it," said he, "and we didn't want it.") The disaster rating allowed farmers to apply for 3% Government loans to finance their next crops, and assured them of an extension...
...same week, there was promise in the wheat belt of a harvest some 250 million bushels bigger than last year's.* Here, too, lay political opportunity. If the crops are up to promise, both corn and wheat may slump between now and election time. In Washington, Charlie Brannan's planners are already drafting their strategy for reminding the farmers that the Administration is the true guardian of the "fixed," (i.e., ever-rising) price...