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...only major industrialist who has as yet refused publicly to kiss the rod of NRA. General Johnson's attempt to get even by having Secretary Wallace refuse the low bid of a Ford dealer on 1,600 trucks for the Civilian Conservation Corps was frustrated by Comptroller General McCarl (TIME, Nov. 6, 13). Last week General Johnson again tried by catch-as-catch-can tactics to throw Mr. Ford. Once again General Johnson was set back on his heels...
Still trying to get around Mr. McCarl, General Johnson advised Secretary Wallace that Ford Motor Co., "save in respect of certain technical particulars which are considered immaterial," had satisfactorily complied with NRA requirements, but that Dealer Sabine ought not to get the contract. He was, reasoned General Johnson, "probably" violating the automobile retail code by bidding lower than the list price for Ford trucks...
...train and that anyhow Congress had not appropriated money for that purpose. He has more power over Treasury expenditures than the President, must see every check that is written from 1? to $1,000,000,000. He can be overridden by no Government official. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl has been tsar of U. S. Treasury expenditures since 1921. He is responsible to Congress alone, interprets Congressional law with literal exactness. He was appointed by President Harding after he had led the Republican Party in the election of 1918 to its first major Congressional comeback since the debacle...
...Department that it was now operating under an NRA code, that costs had gone up 35%, that it could not complete its contract without more money from the U.S. The Justice Department was agreeable, provided the War Department paid more. Attorney General Cummings put the issue up to Comptroller McCarl who ruled last week...
...promptly announced that President Roosevelt would seek a special law from the next session of Congress to adjust Government contracts to NRA costs and thus get around the McCarl ruling...