Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patterson, president of United Air Lines, it seemed that Blackett-Sample-Hummert were trying to tell the U. S. flying public that it is not only more comfortable on American Airlines, but safer. It is a custom that no airline ever violates the united front against anti-flying psychology and earthly means of transportation, for if a customer is told that the route of one airline is needlessly risky, instead of taking another airline he may take a train...
...Patterson of United let it rankle for a fortnight, then took a big advertisement in the Chicago Tribune and let American have it. His statement "In behalf of air transportation" was headed by a reproachful question: What are the REAL FACTS about Coast to Coast flying United's facts turned out to be slightly different from American's facts. Mr. Patterson began by pointing out that the Rocky Mountains extend from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, and no U. S. airline can get to California without flying over them. "United," he flatly counter-claimed, "flies fewer...
...Frederick Grewen, 34, knocked down on Manhattan's Park Avenue last April by Mrs. James Roosevelt's automobile. The President's mother and her chauffeur, Louis E. Depew, who was alone in the car when the accident occurred, were codefendants. Said Supreme Court Justice Mortimer B. Patterson: "The jury was generous, all right...
...other C. I. O. unions also went down to defeat in two Ohio cities, where they backed the Democratic tickets. In Akron the United Rubber Workers saw their candidate, G. L. Patterson, nosed out by Republican Mayor Lee D. Schroy, 35,000-to-29,000. In Canton, one of the hottest salients in the "Little Steel" strike last summer, the Labor candidate, Darrell D. Smith, though backed by both C. I. O. and A. F. of L., was roundly trounced by Mayor James Seccombe...
Wholly unconvinced were TWA's bridling competitors, American and United. Quickly United's President William Allen Patterson issued a statement ". . . Our company does not see how the public can expect airlines to reduce fares while other forms of transportation are increasing them. . . . United is not satisfied that making a 15% reduction below the present round trip fares that are now allowed on all airlines, and making this reduction good on only two days a week, is the answer to the airlines problem, or of material benefit to the public...