Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only 48 hours earlier, William Lyon Mackenzie King had stood before the National Liberal Federation in Ottawa and announced his long-awaited retirement (TIME, March 31). Party leader since 1919, and Prime Minister for two decades, Mackenzie King told his audience that he felt the weight of his 73 years. He asked the federation to call a national Liberal convention (probably in August) to choose his successor...
...Ottawa to Oslo. Canada's Barbara Ann Scott was the girl everybody's eyes were on. Like a wind-whipped prairie fire, her fame has swept eastward from Ottawa to London and Oslo; a few sparks were even observed in Hollywood. In Prague, her photograph was printed in local newspapers 17 times in three days-Rita Hayworth, in Prague recently, got her picture in the paper only eight times. Back home in Ottawa, where a whole Dominion gurgles appreciatively every time Barbara Ann winks an eye, the wheels of government once stopped while the Canadian House of Commons...
...Scotts fitted easily into Ottawa society-the society, basically, of a small town (despite its 154,951 population) that depends less on money than on knowing people and being of respectable family. The Scotts had little money, but they gave their daughter everything they could afford. She went to the Ottawa Normal Model School, got plenty of dolls, and a pair of ice skates when she was six. Until Barbara Ann was ten, her mother made all her clothes. She was the kind of little girl who was nev.er mussed or wrinkled. She kept dogs, cats, birds, rabbits and white...
...official guessed that before the investigation ended it might become "one of the biggest things we have handled for years." So far, at least 40 D.P.s were thought to have entered Canada by the phony passport route. As for the seven arrested in Toronto, their future was up to Ottawa's immigration authorities. Toronto Rabbi David Monson was pleading their case. Said he: "These people aren't criminals...
...mistrusts the U.S. "alien East." Disturbing tales about the Ivy League colleges have lately come to the Colonel's receptive ears. Said his Chicago Tribune last week: "Are these big eastern colleges teaching Americanism or internationalism?" To get the answers, the Tribune dispatched Eugene Griffin, a foreign (Ottawa-based) correspondent...