Word: mccarl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through diplomatic channels, Pasquale Lucarilli of Italy made claim for 3,000 lire to cover funeral expenses of his brother, Julius, late of the A. E. F. Comptroller General McCarl notified the Italian Embassy, last week, that he would allow only 120 lire (about $5.00), the cost of the gravedigger. The balance for religious services-is not, he said, "reimbursable...
This, naturally, disturbed Secretary of the Interior Work. Besides, it complicated the payroll of the hospital, which is under the Interior Department. Mr. Work asked Comptroller General John R. McCarl for an opinion on the case- Mr. McCarl having authority, since he watches over payrolls and all other disbursements from the public purse. Mr. McCarl consulted his legal advisers and decided against the nurse's maiden name. Said...
...McCarl's statement is not true. If Mr. McCarl would look into the matter he would find abundant court decisions in this country and England that the name a woman chooses to use is her legal name, and that her baptismal name is accepted on contracts...
...McCarl went off halfcocked. It is true that the legal domicile of a married woman is that of her husband; but when he made it an analogy with a married woman's legal name, he showed he did not know the facts. He said, in effect: 'As it is with the domicile, so it is with the name.' But so it is not with the name...
...unlikely that the six Commissioners will divide−three against three−on the question of how Mr. McCarl should be interpreted...