There are hardly any New Dealers left in the Department of Agriculture, which was once brimful of them. Charles Franklin Brannan, 44, former Denver attorney, who entered the Department under Henry Wallace, is one of the few. He is Assistant Secretary, in charge of soil conservation, grazing and irrigation programs.
A balding, bespectacled man, he looks like a banker but is politically left of center. He has been restive in the Truman Administration but he has hung on. This week he got his reward. Harry Truman made him Secretary of Agriculture.
The job he takes over was left vacant by Clint Anderson,...
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