Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhodesia, Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga of South Africa and Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly of the Irish Free State. Before them were twelve bundles of closely-typewritten paper representing twelve bilateral trade agreements over a five-year trial period?the result of four weeks of haggling and scratching at Ottawa's Imperial Economic Conference. One by one. smiling woodenly, the delegates signed...
...appreciate very much the message which the representatives. . . have sent me on the termination of the Ottawa conference. The Queen and I thank them all. . . . Your work has been arduous and intricate, but I rejoice to think that your achievement has justified the high expectations with which the conference began...
...eclipse will be total for at most 100 seconds, close to 3:30 p. m. Eastern Standard Time. The U. S. Naval Observatory will broadcast special radio signals from Arlington and Annapolis. WGY, Schenectady and WCSH, Portland, Me. will rebroadcast. Canadian National Railways Station CNRO, Ottawa will also broadcast. The day will probably be poor for radio reception because some sunspots are due to blow open Aug. 28 and 29. Sunspots always disturb radio communications...
...Yazoos and Yapoos seriously expect we Yahoos to believe that cancellation favoring Europe at once and ipso facto means trade favoring America? It is an obvious non sequitur. Witness the attitude of our chiefest creditor. Right now at Ottawa she is busy as a beaver in a brook attempting to dam up a billion-dollar trade between dollar-tied neighbors, alienating from us Canadian plants and other acts which if a Yahoo like Andrew Jackson sat in Washington would mean war. Will cancellation revoke Ottawa decrees unfavorable to us? Will it put American wheat on a parity with Canadian...
...Down, Northern Ireland. In Ireland observers leaped to the conclusion that he was there to hold a series of secret meetings with de Valera representatives on the annuities problem. Some added an additional detail: Scot MacDonald's trip to Ireland was at the request of delegates to the Ottawa conference (see p. 12) who are restless for an early solution. All these stories Scot MacDonald went to great lengths to deny...