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...desk of Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, whom President Roosevelt lately made watchdog of all emergency as well as regular Government expenditures, lay last week warrants for $100,000,000 worth of Treasury disbursements to Federal Housing Corp. Comptroller McCarl, without whose signature no Government money may be spent, refused to countersign. To Secretary of the Interior Ickes, FHC president, he explained: FHC, set up under the National Industrial Recovery Act, was to be a permanent organization, whereas its parent agency was an emergency one. That did not look legal...
...third note, Watchdog McCarl argued that even if FHC was legal, both he and the Attorney General would have to pass on the titles to each and every parcel of land which the Government intended...
...opinion because it might invalidate potent but as yet little used Federal Surplus Relief Corp., another potentially permanent investment agency under the temporary Recovery Act. When Secretary Ickes left the White House he was in calmer mood. Said he: "We will work the matter out all right." If Watchdog McCarl would not change his mind and sign the FHC warrants. Congress would be asked for fresh law on the subject...
...Room 15 on the Capitol's main floor. All revenue legislation must originate in the House, in this committee. Chairman Doughton (spectacles up, biting nails) is a North Carolina farmer with eleven House terms behind him. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts (right) is the ranking minority member, the Republican watchdog who would get Mr. Doughton's chair should parties change. Chairman Doughton is shortly to be translated to the Tariff Commission. His probable successor is stalwart, pipe-smoking Democrat Samuel Billingsley Hill. In the picture the gentlemen are cogitating liquor taxes. They decided to up the spirits tax from...
...must be sure of his plans a day ahead of time; he must, in many instances, seek out that elusive figure, the Senior Tutor, who must, in turn, submit to constant interruption in the name of moral order. This is not necessary. In any case, the Janitor remains the watchdog, and the twenty-four hour rule can have no other justification than Puritanism. The Janitor, moreover, is a handy fellow, easily and always accessible. There seems to be no good objection to a system which would permit students to register for permissions at his office and at the time when...