Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general maxims of Confucius can be found this quotation...
...soldier of fortune, he fought in the Civil War, under Juarez in Mexico, in the Austro-Prussian War, in Crete, in Africa, in Cuba. He wrote more than 600 novels, twelve plays-''without distinction [but] . . . written in a surprisingly correct and easy fashion and . . . wholesome in their general teachings." Napoleon's writings had a more disturbing effect...
...under the Budget & Accounting Act of 1921 was the office of the Comptroller General, with twofold duty of okaying Government expenditures before they are made and auditing them afterwards.* First recipient of this 15-year appointment was crusty Republican John R. McCarl, whose term did not end until 1936. So crusty was "General" McCarl that long before the New Deal spenders became his greatest antagonists, he was famed as "The Watchdog of the Treasury." Since 1933, Franklin Roosevelt has twice tried, twice failed to draw the Comptroller General's teeth through Reorganization...
Fred Brown's appointment was promptly confirmed by his old Senate colleagues. Friends of the new Comptroller, a loyal New Dealer despite his long ballpark friendship with John Nance Garner, thought he would earnestly try to compose the General Accounting Office's present squabbles with the Treasury, TVA, and other Government agencies. But if a Republican administration comes into office in the next ten years, Fred Brown may become a watchdog in earnest...
...Published last month by the Yale University Press was the first full-dress critical study of The Comptroller General by Assistant Professor Harvey C. Mansfield of Yale. Conclusions: that the Comptroller has become a law unto himself, imposed "nearly intolerable" conditions on operating establishments under his control, that his status and duties should be reconsidered by Congress...