Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sticks & Stones ... In Ottawa, Ill., a judge enjoined Henry Factly Jr. from trying to evict his aged mother by 1 ) putting an electric fence across the drive to shock her, 2) hiding iron pipes in the grass to trip-her, 3 ) digging up her flower garden, 4) giving a bull a rock-filled milk can to butt so that "terrific noises would result...
Meanwhile, Prague's Communists busily consolidated their coup. New Communist Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Klementis received resignations from Czechoslovak diplomats in Washington, Ottawa, The Hague. Over transatlantic telephone, he called Prague's resigned U.S. Ambassador Juraj Slavik* "a characterless betrayer of your country," and promptly hustled through a new set of appointments...
...Both Ottawa and Washington were abuzz with talk about the semisecret wartime Hyde Park Agreement which Canada wanted continued into the years of peace (TIME, Feb. 9). On Capitol Hill, Nebraska's Senator Kenneth Wherry and his Small Business Committee had a staff of clerks digging through the files for a full-dress investigation, some time soon. On Parliament Hill, Saskatchewan's CCFer Thomas John Bentley asked that the Secretary of State for External Affairs tell the House of Commons all there was to tell about Hyde Park...
...Czechoslovak: "How should I know? I'm stationed at Ottawa...
...Girl Barbara Ann Scott (TIME, Feb. 2), with grace and precision, outshone 24 competitors to win the women's Olympic figure-skating championship. Her victory was so big an event in Canada that Prime Minister Mackenzie King personally wired her congratulations, and announced his action, amid cheers, in Ottawa's House of Commons. Final winners: Sweden (with 82 points), followed by Switzerland...