Word: mccarl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Warren moves his papers to the red brick Old Pension Office Building on Judiciary Square, he will take a post which demands all the painstaking concentration which often made him better informed on House bills than their authors. When the late niggardly John Raymond McCarl (see p. 62) occupied the office, Washington dubbed him "Watchdog of the Treasury" for such piddling practices as forcing General John J. Pershing to pay for his own Pullman ticket after he had lost his voucher. Franklin Roosevelt, who cares little for such trivialities, was glad to see McCarl's term expire...
Died. John Raymond McCarl, 60, first U. S. Comptroller General (1921-36); of a heart attack; in his Washington law office. Softspoken, florid Comptroller McCarl took his job very seriously. "Watchdog of the Treasury" during his 15-year term, he annoyed the administrations of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt II by refusing to O. K. checks for expenditures not authorized by Congress. Sample McCarlism: refusal to pay $1.50 for a Government employe's lunch because "there is nowhere in Virginia where one can buy a lunch worth...