Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-page crunchers well larded with facts. A staunch United Churchman, who neither smokes nor drinks, he makes a speech at the drop of a hat, at political meetings, church suppers or almost any other gathering that wants to listen. He gets about, spends half his time away from Ottawa on the hustings; last week he was mending fences in Saskatchewan. He has the closest thing to a personal political machine in Canada...
...fashioned political infighting, and effective; but the odds were still on St. Laurent. The Ottawa Journal put it this way: "Our guess is that Mr. Gardiner will not win the party leadership. We would bet all the tea in China, though, that when he goes down it will be with all his banners flying...
...Ottawa, politicians were saying: "That's just it. Do you remember the Republican convention last month? St. Laurent is behaving like Vandenberg. And Gardiner is doing a Dewey...
Alongside Michael Ambrose Mahoney, Paul Bunyan was a dim and legendary piker. Klondike Mike, the greatest of the mushers, the sourdough who struck it rich and kept his poke, is a living legend. Last week when Klondike Mike, at 74, announced in Ottawa that he was leaving Canada to settle in Los Angeles for his health, newspapers wrote dew-eyed editorials, hoped "his shade [would] be long in growing less...
...help make his beloved Ottawa a capital "worthy of . . . the Canada that is to be," Mackenzie King pleaded in the House of Commons last week for an initial town-planning appropriation of $2½ million. Ottawa, said he, should be to Canada what London is to England, Paris to France, Washington to the U.S. For good measure, he rang in the Athens of Pericles and the Rome of the Caesars. His clincher: "Canada may have a future greater than that of the countries I have mentioned . . .* It has possibilities of development that no other country begins to possess...