Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pother. Since then his pictures have been bought by five U. S. museums. Sponsored by the Treasury Department Art Project, he recently completed four mural panels entitled Aspects of Suburban Life, three of which have been assigned to the billiard room of the American Legation Building at Ottawa. In these murals, exhibited in last week's show, shop girls stroll on main street, paunchy tycoons play golf, social climbers watch a polo game...
...Ottawa last week, Canadian M.P.'s from the West demanded to know whether the Dominion Government has given or is about to give the United Kingdom "a blank check which might be filled in with the lives of young Canadians." This emotional question Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King quietly and flatly answered thus: "There are no commitments and no understandings in the nature of commitments between this Government and the Government of Great Britain or any other Government...
...would do as he asked with all speed, but this applies only to the United Kingdom and its Crown colonies. George VI is in each Dominion separately King, and no act of the Mother of Parliaments can settle in London who is to be Regent as far as Ottawa, Canberra, Wellington, Cape Town or Dublin are concerned...
...general, the London decisions took from the Canadian Federal Government and wished onto the provincial governments of the Dominion many a charge and responsibility so heavy that Prime Minister King will have to find new legislative means of having the Dominion bear them anyhow. In Ottawa the Privy Council decisions were called of "utmost importance," confirming as they did the Canadian Supreme Court which gave Canada's "New Deal" a tentative scrapping last spring (TIME, June 29). As was then stressed, Canada's unconstitutional NPMA (Natural Products Marketing Act) was similar but less inclusive than the unconstitutional...
...holding was the balmy weather which had ruined half the winter for more than 70,000 ski addicts on the Eastern seaboard, forced cancellation of snow trains, hit the purses of hundreds of winter inn-owners throughout the White, Green, and Adirondack Mountains. Even the world snowshoe championships at Ottawa Jan. 30 had to be run on snowless ground. Dartmouth feared it would have to import snow for its ski-jumping. But oldsters could remember no year in which snow did not finally fall in time for the Dartmouth Carnival and sure enough, on January's last day, their...