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...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...
...President was rewarding old friends. The Congress, having approved 16 of the 21 Hoover reorganization plans sent up to the Hill by the President, had given Harry Truman a chance to do some reshuffling among his bureaucrats. To his closest non-Missouri political crony, ex-Senator Mon C. Wallgren (once national amateur 18.2 balkline billiards champion), the President gave the chairmanship of the Federal Power Commission; he made onetime New York Senator James M. Mead, another old Senate buddy now on the Government payroll, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission...
...nation's defense machinery, but somebody forgot to connect it to the machine. Its first chairman, Arthur M. Hill, could not get along with Harry Truman and quit after 14 months on the job. Then Harry Truman nominated the conspicuously unqualified Mon C. Wallgren, a Democrat out of a job, who couldn't get the Senate's approval. The board had rattled around without a real head ever since...
Chairman, National Security Resources Board. Salary: $17,500 plus modest expense acct and use of official automobile. Faithful service to Democratic Party helpful but may not be enough, as last applicant (Mon Wallgren) found out. Position vacant since...
...Withdrew, after once vowing that he never would, the nomination of his old poker pal, former Governor Mon C. Wallgren of Washington, as $14,000-a-year chairman of the National Security Resources Board. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which did not think ex-Senator Wallgren was up to the job, had pigeonholed the nomination for three months...