Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 28, it is stated that on the British and Dutch Air Lines, for the last three years, the average number of passenger air miles per passenger fatality was 2,663,000. Reference is then made to a footnote stating that, according to Major General Mason M. Patrick of the U. S. Army Air Service, for a number of years prior to 1923, there was an average of one passenger casualty on U. S. railroads for about every 2,000,000 miles. There is a vast difference between a fatality and a casualty and, even if the information given...
...According to Major General Mason M. Patrick of the U.S.Army Air Service, for a number of years prior to 1913, there was an average of one passenger casualty on U.S. railroads for about every 2,000,000 miles...
Patrolman Patrick Powers, of Madison, Wis., found a man on his back porch at midnight. The man ran; Patrolman Powers cried, "Halt!", took a shot in the dark, killed Peter M. Posepny, Wisconsin University undergraduate. A jury acquitted Patrolman Powers of murder. Thereupon, the Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin undergraduate paper, published an editorial allegedly written by one Wesley Dunlap, of Salt Lake City. "We should like to see the police force tremble in its boots at the approach of a student. We should like to see terror thrown into their hearts when the word 'student' is mentioned...
Last week he died?His Eminence Michael Cardinal Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of all Ireland, 114th successor of St. Patrick, the serpent-killer. He was the only Primate to have been made a Cardinal in Ireland's 1,500 years of Christian history...
...destruction by supreme skill, cautious Mr. Coolidge vetoed all plans for a Polar flight. Now that the U. S. has two large dirigibles in its possession, and such perfect command of both ships has been demonstrated again and again, there is revived talk of the expedition. General Mason M. Patrick in fact wants the ZR3 transferred to the Army, and a race between ZR3 and Shenandoah "to either the North or the South Pole." There would be sufficient thrill to a polar flight even without the element of a race. If a mooring mast and hangars were erected at Nome...