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United's President William A. ("Pat") Patterson was mad because CAB had turned down United's request to fly a cut-off route between Los Angeles and Denver on United's New York to San Francisco main line. Instead, CAB had given the permit to smaller Western Air Lines. As an estimated 50,000 transcontinental passengers a year will fly over the route, many of them on sleeper planes, this might mean that they would be routed out of bed in the middle of the night to change planes. To avert this, CAB suggested that Western...
Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson (August 1944): "Victory over the Germans...
Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson last week charged more than 10,000 striking members of the Mechanics Educational Society of America (independent) with "conduct equivalent to treason." The strike was a jurisdictional dispute between M.E.S.A. and the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers; it had spread from a single small factory to 48 other war plants by order of M.E.S.A.'s energetic Matthew Smith...
Under Secretary Patterson wired Smith: "Your strikes . . . represent no honest grievance. . . . You are striking our fighting men from the rear. The War Department insists these strikes be stopped at once...
...Premier William John Patterson, Liberal, who did not know his Lenin, attacked the C.C.F. for confusing "socialism and cooperation by making them appear synonymous." Then he and his fellow Liberals voted with the C.C.F. for the new bill. This was smart politics, for nowhere in Canada are cooperatives so popular and successful as in Saskatchewan, where 1,000 societies with 250,000 members own and operate their own businesses. Among the most unusual: Regina's Funeral Cooperative Association Ltd., organized July 1, 1943 to combat the high cost of dying...