Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa's Parliament Building, Walpole's portrait hangs first in the gallery of 42 British Prime Ministers. Last week a waggish newsman draped the frame with black paper, and pasted on a label: "Scratched...
Queen Victoria (following the confidential advice of Canada's Governor General, Sir Edmund Head) chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857. The late Goldwin Smith* thought it a poor choice. His snorted comment: "A subarctic village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit." Ottawa (pop. about 160,000) is no longer a village. Neither is it the "Washington of the North" that Sir Wilfrid Laurier hoped that it would be. It is not for want of trying...
...past half century, three different city planners and countless commissions and boards have produced plans to beautify Ottawa, if not make it bigger. The net result: a few extra patches of public lawn, a few monuments, and Confederation Square, which has so complicated downtown traffic that Ottawans themselves call it Confusion Square. Ottawa, dominated by the anachronistic Gothic buildings of Parliament, has remained frowzy, a city where trains run through the center of town and chuff smoke into the foyer of the best hotel...
...contrary, Ottawa expects ERP to help keep Canada's economy from outright U.S. control. It will preserve the traditional three-cornered pattern of Canadian commerce (buying in the U.S. and selling to Europe). If ERP puts Europe on its feet, the benefit to Canada will be permanent. If ERP fails, the preservation will be temporary, and Canada will have to cut its economic cloth to a new pattern...
Figure-Skater Barbara Ann Scott, having announced her willingness to turn pro, was getting black & blue from the money & things people were throwing at her. Total offers received thus far-from Hollywood, radio and advertisers-came to $150,000; she was now sorting them over, thinking. The City of Ottawa planned to give her back the canary-colored Buick it had given her a year ago last March and then taken back when Avery Brundage of the U.S. Olympic Association objected...