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Congress, 1933–1950,” Political Science Quarterly 108, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 283–306.
    10. Robert C. Lieberman, The Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), 122.
    11. Democratic platform text in NYT, July 24, 1952. The school lunch program was part of the party’s platform that year.
    12. Richard B. Russell to Walter J. Shaffer, April 20, 1949, Richard B. Russell Collection, Series IX B, Box 41, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens.
    13. “Cut Called Danger to School Lunches,” NYT, May 8, 1953; and “Benson Is Opposed on Cut in Subsidy,” NYT, April 14, 1953.
    14. Carl M. Brauer, “Kennedy, Johnson, and the War on Poverty,” Journal of American History, 69, no. 1 (June 1982): 98–119, 101. Also, “Child Nutrition Programs: Issues for the 101st Congress,” School Food Service Research Review (Spring 1989), 51.
    15. “Child Nutrition Programs: Issues for the 101st Congress,” 27; Senate Agriculture Subcommittee, 1962, p. 18.
    16. “U.S. Lunch Plan Scored in Study,” NYT, June 19, 1969.
    17. “Truman Approves School Lunch Bill,” NYT, June 5, 1946.
    18. Karl A. Fox, Vernon W. Ruttan, Lawrence W. Witt, eds. Farming, Farmers, and Markets for Farm Goods: Essays on the Problems and Potentials ofAmerican Agriculture, Supplementary Paper No. 15, Committee for Economic Development, New York, November 1962, p. 130.
    19. United States Congress, Senate, Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, 90th Cong., 2nd. Sess. (hereafter Senate Select Committee), Part 11 February 18–20, 1969, p. 3510.
    20. USDA, Production and Marketing Administration, Food Distribution Branch, “Supplement to School Lunch and Food Distribution, Selected Fiscal Years, 1939–1951,” Wsahington D.C., March 1952.
    21. United States Congress, House Committee on Education and Labor, Hearings on Malnutrition and Federal Food Service Programs, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess Part I, May 21–June 3, 1968, (hereafter, House Committe on Education and Labor, 1968) 151.
    22. United States Congress, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Hearings, School Lunch and Child Nutrition Programs, 91st Cong., 2nd Sess., September 29–October 1,1969 (hereafter, Senate Agritculture Committee, 1969) 185.
    23. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee, 1962, p. 11.
    24. “Pupils Get Food in 60,000 Schools,” NYT, August 9, 1959.
    25. See, e.g., memo from Orville Freeman to President Johnson, December 27, 1966, WHCF EX AG7, Box 10, Folder AG7 11/13 66–. LBJ Library. In this case, the growers asked that the government “buy heavily for the School Lunch Program.” Freeman considered this “a proper request” within his mission under Section 32.
    26. William L. Lanier to Richard B. Russell, March 10, 1966, and Howard B. Davis to Richard B. Russell, March 28, 1966, Richard Russell Collection, Series IX B, Box 10, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens.
    27. J. D. Ratcliff, “They’re Playing Politics with Our Children’s Health,” McCalls Magazine, September 1950. (From National Agricultural Library, USDA History Collection, Box 1.3/15, “Free Distribution to Low Income Groups (SLP),” 1949–53.)
    28. Senate Select Committee, Part 11, 3504–5.
    29. Ibid., Part 11, 3600. Also see Committee on School Lunch Participation Their Daily Bread (Atlanta, Ga.: McNelley-Rudd, 1968), 79.
    30. See Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890–1935 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
    31. James T. Bonnen, “The Crisis in the Traditional Roles of Agricultural Institutions,” in Fox et al., eds., Farming, Farmers, and Markets.
    32. Senate Select Committee, Part 1, 154–55.
    33. See Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion, 155. Also,