Word: mccarl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James G. Woolley, onetime vice president of Western Air Express, revealed that Ernest Winder Smoot, son of Utah's pious Reed Smoot, longtime Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had been hired to "expedite" Comptroller General McCarl's approval of a Western Air bid for an airmail contract. Harris Hanshue. Western Air president, admitted that Ernest Smoot had "sold" his company the idea that he could put the contract through...
...high bid. ... If he renders decision giving you contract under low bid, accept first checks under protest and file claim for the difference. This seems . . . foolish but it is a precedent in-the general's office. ... If nothing happens first next week my father and I will see McCarl again." A letter written after the contract had been approved presented a bill for $15.000 "for the specific services you instructed me on Nov. 13 to perform in Washington." Still another from Mr. Woolley to young Smoot declared that Western Air "regards yourself and your father...
...legality of contracts, all had been approved by that jealous guardian of the national purse, Comptroller General McCarl...
...that Secretary Ickes blew up: "McCarl says the framers of the Constitution never contemplated that a corporation of this sort would be set up, and that therefore it can't be done. . . . The Comptroller General has ruled that he must be advised in advance about every transaction. He wants to know where the properties are, whether the price is a fair one and, in addition, he says each title must be examined by the Attorney General's office. In some tracts there are hundreds of small parcels, and the Attorney General would not have time to do anything...
...opinion because it might invalidate potent but as yet little used Federal Surplus Relief Corp., another potentially permanent investment agency under the temporary Recovery Act. When Secretary Ickes left the White House he was in calmer mood. Said he: "We will work the matter out all right." If Watchdog McCarl would not change his mind and sign the FHC warrants. Congress would be asked for fresh law on the subject...