Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Rangers: their opening game of the professional hockey season, against the world champion Montreal Canadiens, 4 to 1; at Montreal. Philadelphia and Ottawa have no teams in the National Hockey League this year. Nonetheless, Hockey League directors last month decided to retain a system whereby this season all but the two poorest teams in the league qualify for the Stanley Cup play-off next March. A new rule this year: A penalty face-off will be ordered if any player other than the goalie falls on the puck within ten feet of his own goal...
...financial stability and to frame plans for ensuring a favorable balance of trade." Carefully the speech avoided saying that these "plans" would include tariff. His Majesty also announced that last year's abortive economic conference of all British Dominion delegates at London will be resumed next year at Ottawa, added a pious allusion to the deadlocked Indian Round Table Conference: "It is my earnest prayer that the deliberations . . . may be crowned with success...
...into the early morning darkness over Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airdrome one day last week shot "Jimmy" Doolittle's Laird racer, the one in which he crossed the U. S. in 11 hr. 16 min. 10 sec. last month (TIME, Sept. 14). In the cockpit Major Doolittle had a copy of that morning's Ottawa Citizen. That afternoon he handed the paper to a newsman on Mexico City's Valbuena Airfield, 12 hr. 36 min. after leaving Ottawa. He gave himself up to a reception committee, spurned proffered tea and asked for three fingers of brandy, declared...
...evident more ducks are shot to the south of the line. Also that 6,500,000 licenses are annually issued in the U. S. and that in some States there is open season the year around leads us to question the right of Americans who are clamoring at Ottawa for an embargo on duck and geese shooting in Canada this year...
Vanishment. One person who could have said whether U. S. pressure was brought to bear or not was fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Last week he disappeared completely. He was not in Quebec, where he was supposed to be, nor was he in Ottawa or Montreal. News-hounds could not flush his grey brush in New York or Washington...