Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four Crimson jumpers will journey to Lake Placid this vacation to compete with the crack ski teams from Dartmouth, New Hampshire, Cornell, Ottawa, St. Patricks, Toronto, McGill, Williams and Princeton colleges...
...friends across a room. As his hostess in Washington when Woodrow Wilson called him back to the State Department just before the War, as his hostess at The Hague when he was appointed Minister to The Netherlands (1920), in Brussels when he became Ambassador to Belgium (1924) and at Ottawa when he was appointed first U. S. Minister to Canada (1927), she played a notable part in her husband's career. The wealth of the Phillipses which has opened to him posts which were closed to other career diplomats has also been a drawback, for they have ever found...
...high but very courteous good humor, he bore the recriminations which were hurled at him and his treaty. For although the treaty does not go into force until Jan. 1, although its terms were kept secret for 48 hours (to allow for their transmission and simultaneous release in Ottawa) the howls of aggrieved lobbyists had already begun a serenade in Washington. Whether there had been some leak or whether they knew that tariff cuts were due them, the industries affected began to squeal. Lumbermen protested that they were being "sold down the river," dairymen that it would be a crime...
...Ottawa MacKenzie King announced...
Next day, instead of starting South for a fortnight's vacation as planned, Prime Minister King wired his Cabinet to meet him in Ottawa, hurried home. Three days later Franklin Roosevelt at Arlington Cemetery publicly declared...