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...Government expenditures to make sure they conformed to the law. So Congress tried to keep the power of the purse in its own hands. Result when Franklin Roosevelt began to spend was an awful series of squabbles between the open-handed New Deal and crusty Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl. When Mr. McCarl's 15-year term of office expired two and a half years ago, Franklin Roosevelt did not bother to appoint a successor. In his great Reorganization Bill he proposed to set up an Auditor General to audit expenditures after they were made, transfer to the Treasury...
Twice the President miscalculated. Richard Nash Elliott, a bald, chunky Republican of 65 who served Indiana in Congress for 14 years and was named Assistant Comptroller General by Hoover in 1931, automatically became Acting Comptroller. At first he was accounted an amenable stooge. Of Mr. McCarl's dogged devotion to duty, he amiably remarked: "Times and conditions change...
After 90 minutes with the nominee, one-time (1921-36) Comptroller General John R. McCarl sat down, wrote an enthusiastic blurb. Excerpt: "I venture to prophesy that his will be the most economical administration our country has experienced for many a moon-and in striking contrast with the extravagances now so prevalent...
...exile from his beloved Washington. A level-headed party regular whose lack of enthusiasm for some New Deal experiments has not abated his zeal helping to bring them into being, he has served his President with a loyalty which cannot well go unrewarded. The Comptroller Generalship, which John R. McCarl will vacate July 1, is believed by many to be his for the asking. In that $15,000-per-year job he would be sure of 15 more years in Washington, free from all shift of political fortune. But Mississippians who sent Pat Harrison to support a Democratic President...
Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl ruled that hereafter the 4.000 employes of District of Columbia public schools must swear every month that they have not "taught or advocated" Communism, otherwise go without pay checks. Since the ruling failed to define the exact meaning of "teach," school officials were in a worse quandary than ever. Not so Major General Fries. Said he: "Three cheers for McCarl! That's just fine. When the law reads so clearly there's nothing else to do but observe...