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...heels of Judge Dawson's ruling came a revelation that Comptroller General John R. McCarl had put AAA in the worst hole of its career. When drought began to shrivel Midwestern wheat fields AAA relieved spring wheat growers of their pledge to cut their 1935 acreage by 10%, promised they would still get some $30,000,000 in benefit payments for acreage reduction. Ruled Comptroller McCarl: No reduction, no bounties...
...Stephen T. Early, ahead of the diplomats home for the holidays: Ambassador Long from Rome, Ambassador Weddell from Buenos Aires, Ambassador Bullitt from Moscow, Minister Emmet from The Hague. Others with their relative places in the social scale: Episcopal Bishop Freeman of Washington, Federal Reserve Governor Eccles, Comptroller General McCarl, Reconstruction Finance Chairman Jesse Jones, Tennessee Valley Authoritarian Arthur Ernest Morgan, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, National Industrial Recovery Board's Samuel Clay Williams, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Leo T. Crowley, National Labor Relations Board's Francis Biddle, National Emergency Council's Donald Richberg...
...Congressional secretaries, wives, families, visitors. However, he gives non-members only emergency treatments. Regular patients are primarily Senators and Representatives (Vice President Garner is an assiduous client) and a few of their former colleagues, like onetime Vice President Charles Curtis. A stronger hindrance developed last week. John Raymond McCarl, comptroller-general, let it be known that Congress could promote Dr. Calver to anything it liked, but that he would not pay him one cent more than he gets now. The hindrance apparently is not insurmountable. Congressmen recalled that President Wilson made Commander Gary Travers Grayson a rear-admiral, that President...
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...