Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the status of the Merchant Fleet Corp. as a body responsible primarily to the U. S. Shipping Board whose officers were its managers, Congress never until last week received an audit of the corporation's books. When that audit came, from Comptroller-General John Raymond McCarl, great was the shock to watchdogs of the public treasury...
Without naming names, Mr. McCarl cited instances to show how great were the sacrifices, how shocking the business management, in some of the corporation's white elephant sales in 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925. For example...
...strode upon the national scene and introduced himself in prodigious basso tones as follows: "If anyone has- any difficulty-in hearing me-in the remotest cor-rners of this hall-do not bla-ame it on Calif-o-ornia-but bla-ame it on Ka-ansas City!" It was great-voiced John L. McNab, San Francisco lawyer, placing his good friend, Herbert Clark Hoover, in nomination for the Presidency of the U. S. Then John L. McNab retired from the national scene...
...Wickersham has been too busy fact-finding. And the 'President had to admit that there is no one now in his administration either free or capable enough to effect the transfer of the Treasury's enforcement bureau to the Department of Justice. So he called again for great-voiced John McNab...
...McNab will be a sub-sub-committee of one, appended to a sub-committee of the Wickersham Commission. Besides reorganizing executive forces, he will study the notorious delays of Federal Court procedure. When his findings are ready perhaps his great voice will intone: "If anyone has any difficulty in hearing me in the remotest corners of this nation, do not blame it on Calif-o-ornia, but bla-ame it on Washington...