Word: mccarl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Woodrow Wilson went to the Paris Peace Conference on the S. S. George Washington. Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, U. S. fiscal autocrat, compelled Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and the six other U. S. delegates to travel on the same ship to the London naval parley next month or pay their own expenses on another ship. Statesman Stimson had wanted to travel on the fast S. S. Bremen. The Comptroller's authority: The Merchant Marine Act of 1928 which specifies that U. S. officials must travel on U. S. ships "whenever available." To make...
Famed Nebraskans past, present and sometime: the Bryan Brothers (William Jennings, Charles Wayland), U. S. Senator George William Norris, Union Pacific R. R. President Carl Raymond Gray, U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard...
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...
...McCarl report did not charge malfeasance, but President Hoover straight way ordered Attorney-General Mitchell to discover whether there had been any violation of the law. The President was careful to point out that all the instances cited were "prior to this Administration." As many citizens recall, President Coolidge was constantly prodding the U. S. Shipping Board to get rid of this floating white elephants...