Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hapless Herbert Clark Hoover of Ottawa is Richard Bedford Bennett, a good man, rich, pious, well-meaning, conservative and Premier. Before next autumn at the latest he must fight a Canadian election, and everyone has been saying he must lose for the same reason that Mr. Hoover inevitably lost: the people are sore. Last week Mr. Bennett decided that he would not accept defeat without trying the last refuge of statesmanship, demagoguery. Overnight the leader of Canada's Conservative Party turned such a complete somersault that the Conservative Montreal Gazette said he had "done violence to every Conservative principle...
Parliament convenes at Ottawa on Jan. 17. and Premier Bennett last week was obviously making a supreme effort to undercut radical criticism of his steady stewardship by out-pinking the pinks before they get a chance to shout at his Government Bench. Canadian wiseacres, though admitting that Conservative Bennett had turned his coat with fair dexterity and vast vigor, opined that "Depression cooked Bennett's goose and he can't uncook it now." On the other hand Canada has been on the upgrade for at least a year. Exports are up 25%, from 1933, and by next August...
...when total gate receipts could be reckoned in hundreds of dollars rather than in hundreds of thousands, a Crimson eleven left the United States without permission from the Dean and thought nothing of it. Just fifty years ago, in 1884, the last game outside American boundaries was played in Ottawa...
Once the then arduous trip to Ottawa had been completed the team found itself welcomed and feted by officials and citizens alike. Expenses were paid, sleighs for transportation were provided, (it snowed in the good old days) and the eleven was lined up before a large audience. Just before the Governor General of Canada stepped onto the field to put the ball in play, the Ottawa manager noticed that the Harvard team only had eleven men. Ottawa always played fifteen and when they had obligingly cut down their number, the Harvard outfit was able to roll up 24 points...
...Lynn, making his professional début. In Boston, Lester Patrick's Brother Frank, with a new job as manager, planned to make a star of a Ranger castoff, hulking Jean Pusie. In St. Louis a new team called the Eagles, but actually the old Ottawa Senators who were as weak on ice as they were at the box office last season, was threatened by a suit for $200,000 for trespassing in a district already covered by a minor-league franchise...