Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week that 86 years of British free trade were at an end. Effective March i, Britain will impose a 10% ad valorem tariff on all articles not already taxed except meat, wheat, raw cotton, raw wool, tea. British-caught fish and (until after the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa in July) exports from British colonies and dominions...
...your issue of Nov. 30 you showed a picture of Senator Gore, and a news story to the effect that he had said at a banquet in Ottawa "To hell with Mr. Volstead...
Hearst's Universal Service, which arranged the sales-tax-study junket, was TIME's source for the information that Senator Gore made a speech at a state dinner in Ottawa, in the course of which he rendered Four & 20 blackbirds Got a little dry . . . etc., etc. On the junket were four and 70 people, including four and 60 members of Congress. Senator Gore added that this party had not come to drink rye. But liquor was served them everywhere except at U. S. Minister Hanford MacNider's tea party. TIME gladly prints Senator Gore's denial...
Born in Montreal, son of a French Canadian cobbler, Quebec's new Archbishop was ordained in Ottawa. He became superior of St. Joseph Scholasticate, where he taught philosophy, canonical law, moral theology. Vastly erudite, he taught also at the University of Ottawa, became dean of its theological faculty in 1929. Ottawa knew him as its "Good Father," a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founder of several houses of retreat, a tall, spare cleric who lends ascetic dignity to the affairs of his church...
Approved a Cabinet spanking quietly administered to florid, genial James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions, who had planned for himself & family a glorious round-the-world junket, visiting all the dominions preliminary to next year's Imperial Conference at Ottawa...