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...eleven Army engineers were in the field, would shortly report on ways to speed up relief construction. Along with this promise to do better, relief officials also let it be known that the lag in relief progress was not all their fault. Tactfully they pointed out that Comptroller General McCarl had released to date only $585,000,000 for $1,900,000,000 worth of WPA projects approved by President Roosevelt...
...Washington, meantime, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, privately grateful to the late Senator Huey Long and Comptroller General John R. McCarl, was preparing to drop his hot potatoes as fast as he could. Senator Long had filibustered to death the Third Deficiency Bill containing an appropriation for enforcement of potato control (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Secretary Wallace announced without apparent regret that Comptroller McCarl was unwilling to let AAA draw enforcement funds from other sources. "I found," smiled the Secretary, "that funds just didn't seem to be there. That may not sound very logical but that...
...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...
...right to spend its money as it likes without what it calls "red tape" and what Comptroller General McCarl calls "statutory limitations...