Word: mccarl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue at stake was the passage of a bill designed to enlarge, improve and advance the powers of Tennessee Valley Authority. The Senate passed the measure last May. The House Military Affairs Committee, having heard many grievous charges against TVA by Comptroller General McCarl (TIME, June 3), first tabled the bill, then by a slim margin reported it out in a revised version. As they came before the House, these TVAmendments, instead of enlarging, considerably restricted TVAuthority...
...Requiring TVA to get the approval of Comptroller General McCarl before spending any money...
This news raised Committee eyebrows to about the same extent as would have occurred if Mr. Mitchell had revealed that the Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776 at Philadelphia. It had all been hashed out by Comptroller General McCarl, was an old story. Not even the Committee's Republican minority was free to get edited about the Leviathan subsidy, because Republican Kermit Roosevelt is an I. M. M. vice president...
Representative Maury Maverick of Texas was incensed at these facts from Mr. Cassidy's summary of the McCarl report. Demanding that Mr. Cassidy be thrown out of the Committee room, he yelled: "An immense crooked lobby is trying to defeat TVA. It is rotten and disgraceful!" He charged that the summary was false: "If I weren't in Congress and it would not be undignified to say so, I would say it's lousy." David E. Lilienthal, TVA director, was called to the stand and declared the Cassidy summary "misleading." Comptroller McCarl, also called, said the summary...
...Appointed by President Harding, Comptroller General McCarl's term expires July...