Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of a modern, well-paved Trans-Canada Highway is not for want of talk. Associations all over the Dominion have plugged for it. So have provincial leaders, and last week Ottawa admitted that it had heard some of them. Prompted by the oratory of British Columbia's Premier Byron ("Boss") Johnson at the Liberal Convention, it promised to call a Dominion-provincial highway conference this fall. Because the British North America Act leaves the problem of highways to the provinces, Ottawa was not ready to do much more than confer. Besides, it wanted the provinces to bear...
...afternoon sun shafted down through the skylights of Ottawa's gloomy, barnlike Coliseum. Floodlights played on the poster portraits of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Twenty-nine years ago Mr. King had taken over from his longtime friend Sir Wilfrid. Now 1,227 delegates to the National Liberal Convention were picking Mr. King's successor...
...three days last week he followed his usual routine in the external affairs office. Even when the convention got underway he spent most of his time seated dutifully on the platform. Occasionally and a little self-consciously, he drifted through the ornate lobby of the Chateau Laurier-the closest Ottawa came to a smoke-filled room-chatting with friends and newsmen. He had no need for a campaign headquarters; Prime Minister King overshadowed the campaign as well as the convention...
...Balloons Wanted. There was not much fun for delegates in staid Ottawa. Although there was plenty of rye in hotel rooms, not even beer could be bought in the convention cafeteria. Young Liberals did without balloons at their dance because Mr. King disapproved. Out at the Experimental Farm, there was a garden party at which the old (73) Mr. King played host, shook a thousand hands and stuffed cakes into his mouth five times for the photographers...
...appoint a party organizer, as well as public relations and press liaison officers. Need for a better job of selling the Liberal Party to the people was clearly indicated by the past year's record: except for the New Brunswick Liberal victory (won largely in an anti-Ottawa campaign), they have lost every major election test...