Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duplessis victory threw this week's Liberal Convention in Ottawa wide open. Many a Liberal still figured that Louis St. Laurent-was the man to swing waning Quebec Liberal strength back into line. Not so Quebecker and onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, who had managed the Liberal campaign in Quebec, and seen St. Laurent in action. At week's end Chubby Power announced that he would be available for the Liberal leadership himself...
...Ottawa Indians of Michigan gathered on a bluff, pounded their tom-toms, and made Dwight D. Eisenhower an honorary member, in absentia...
...Ottawa's Coliseum management is more familiar with agricultural fairs than with political conventions, but it hoped to be ready for the Liberals on Aug. 5. Stocky James Gordon Fogo, president of the National Liberal Federation, was equally hopeful of being ready and, after a 29-year lapse, equally unfamiliar with the problems of a national convention...
Within a few hours he had tentatively reserved alternative convention halls in Winnipeg, Montreal and Ottawa. This week the P.C.s decided to hold the convention in Ottawa's Coliseum from September 30 to October 2. There was reason for haste. In six weeks the Conservatives would have to try to do an organization job that the Liberals have spread over six months. And the P.C.s had a bigger...
Idleness sat ill on Klondike Mike. Along with his Alaskan partner, George Rich, he started a trucking business in Ottawa, built it into one of the biggest in Canada. Then he took a major step. At 53, he learned to read and write...