Word: wallgren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right-to-work referendum in Washington State last year. With the notable exception of Washington's ex-Republican Governor Arthur Langlie (who began ringing alarms on Beck 20 years ago), most successful Northwestern politicians are beholden to Dave Beck. In 1946 Washington's Democratic Governor Mon Wallgren appointed Beck to the board of regents of the University of Washington. And in 1950, Dave Beck, who had never completed high school, became president of the board...
...paid as much as $25,000 for a horse: Brief Moment, winner of the $10,000 Longacres Mile at Seattle in 1939. He was appointed to the Washington State Horse Racing Commission by Democratic Governor Clarence D. Martin in 1939, and was named chairman by Democratic Governor Monrad C. Wallgren in 1945. (In between, he was fired by Republican Governor Arthur B. Langlie in 1941, and he was refired by Langlie...
Harry Truman is now faced with making one of the most important appointments of his career. The Federal Power Commission is without a chairman. If Truman selects a man sympathetic to the oil and natural gas industries, as was Mon C. Wallgren, the former chairman, the price of natural gas for home use may skyrocket. The FPC passed a ruling during Wallgren's chairmanship that stated that the FPC, under the Natural Gas Act of 1938, could have no jurisdiction over the Phillips Petroleum Co. In so doing, Wallgren turned over control of the FPC to the industries...
Truman then appointed Wallgren to the empty chairmanship of the FPC, and Wallgren promptly delivered the commission into Kerr's hands. Supported by Wimberly and Bailing, Wallgren reversed the Truman veto with the August 22 ruling, allowing the increased prices demanded by "short-armed" producers like the Phillips Oil Company. This action brought justified complaints from the "integrated" companies, whose prices are still controlled by the FPC. And, what is more dangerous, Wallgren's decision may act as an opening wedge for other public public utilities to demand less price regulation by the government...
...last week Bob Kerr and the oilmen got what they wanted-thanks chiefly to another old Truman friend and fishing partner. FPC Chairman Mon Wallgren, former governor of Washington and Truman's hand-picked candidate for the FPC job, announced that FPC had decided that independent gas producers were not within its jurisdiction after all. The circumstances surrounding the announcement were odd: FPC, which usually takes weeks to hand down a decision, got this one out nine days after oral hearings were over on a test case concerning Phillips Petroleum Co., world's biggest natural gas producer. Chairman...