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...last April Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan went before 2,322 farmers in Minnesota to tout his controversial Brannan plan. The farmers, who work part-time for the Agriculture Department as local committeemen, were paid $8 a day plus 5? a mile traveling allowances plus incidental expenses to hear the big chief plug his own propaganda. Last week U.S. Comptroller General Lindsay Warren reported to Congress that Brannan's two-day rally had cost...
...that he would veto any bill which did not make up the revenue elsewhere. It would increase taxes on large corporation profits from the present 38% to 41% to bring in $433,000,000. With the prospect of another $500 million from plugging loopholes in other tax laws, the committeemen hoped to get their excise tax cuts past the President...
When an inflamed Communist mob beat up five U.S. soldiers on May 30 (TIME, June 12), General Douglas MacArthur decided that he had had enough of Red rabble-rousing. One morning last week the angry general ordered the Japanese government to bar the Communist Party's 24 Central Committeemen from all further political activity. The next day MacArthur added to the list 17 top staffers of Akahata (Red Flag), the party's newspaper...
Seven executive committeemen of Vargas' Labor Party flew south to his estancia to tell him that their convention would nominate him this week. Vargas' reply was characteristically enigmatic. He would accept, he said, if the two other major political parties, the Social Democrats and National Democratic Union, could not agree on a joint candidate. If he really had a candidate of his own in mind, most likely the man was able Oswaldo Aranha, his onetime Foreign Minister. But many Brazilians seemed to think that Getulio was maneuvering for his own return to power...
...committeemen had gone into the valley last November to investigate a two-year-old strike of the National Farm Labor Union (A.F.L.) against the biggest ranch of them all, the n,000-acre Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., producers of $5.9 million worth of grapes, plums, potatoes and asparagus each year. The union complained formally that Di Giorgio had refused to negotiate, then treated the Congressmen to its own 25-minute propagan da film called "Poverty in the Valley of Plenty." The camera poked into sordid one-room shacks, lingered on a leaky shower that served 25 families, studied hollow-eyed...