Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast domain is the Province of Ontario, stretching from the Ottawa River to the Manitoba prairies; from Niagara Falls to Hudson Bay. Within its 400,000 sq. mi. are one-third of Canada's population; one-half of Canada's industry. Almost every known mineral except coal lies beneath Ontario's geologically ancient hills. And that fact has given rise to the greatest public power enterprise in the capitalist world-the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. Last week "Hydro" found itself in the thick of a furious politico-economic fight which stirred the whole Dominion...
...have thus far failed to justify themselves, and the New York Americans, an erratic assortment of seasoned players too old to be ambitious and youngsters too ambitious to be steadily effective. Fifth and last were the St. Louis Eagles, new in name this year but actually the old Ottawa Senators...
Whipped by a 40 m. p. h. gale, an Ottawa blizzard lashed the state carriage of Canada's unpopular Governor General last week, as His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, rode out to open Parliament for the last time in his five year vice-Regal term. The next Governor General may just possibly be His Majesty's youngest son the Duke of Kent. Last week Lord Bessborough further miffed Canadians by insisting that his youngest son, aged 3, should see papa open Canada's Senate and House of Commons. As usual the vice-Regal...
...Reform hinted in the Speech was the Bennett New Deal, a hodge-podge of Rooseveltisms blended with reform proposals lifted bodily from Canada's Liberal Party, the opposition led by former Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King. In a Montreal speech two nights before Parliament opened at Ottawa, Premier Bennett, one of Canada's wealthiest capitalists, denounced prosperous ex-Premier King as "entrenched behind the forces of Capitalism!" Amazed Liberals accused the Conservative Premier "not only of stealing our clothes but of trying to wish his old clothes off on us." Conservative henchmen were jubilant. Resigned until recently...
...running Canadian schooner I'm Alone 200 miles out to sea, there shelled and sank her (TIME, April 1, 1929). One seaman, a French citizen, was killed. British and Canadian newspapers roared with pain. U. S. Wets bubbled over in frothy indignation. Terse memoranda flew between London, Ottawa and Washington. Strenuously the U. S. State Department sought to defend the act's legality...