Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bumbling U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark was considering contempt proceedings. Asked for his reaction on such a step, Secretary Marshall pointed out that the affair has aroused "considerable concern" in Canada. That was enough for Clark. Instead of contempt crackdowns, he sent top Department officials to Ottawa to confer with Canadian newsprint interests...
...well aware that its austerity schedule would be hard to take, used two of its most persuasive radio voices to sell the regimen to the people. Prime Minister Mackenzie King, speaking from London, outlined the crisis in general terms. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott followed him on the air from Ottawa with the details...
...Netherlands was next. There were solid reasons why Mr. King was a hero there. The Netherlands has already sent 5,000 of its citizens to Canada since the war's end. Canada was the first nation to give The Netherlands a postwar loan; Crown Princess Juliana lived in Ottawa during the war. Most important, it was Canada's army that drove the Germans...
...this Leslie Roberts you mention in the Oct. 27 issue thinks he reflects the opinion of Canadians as a whole, then I say he is ... crazy. . . . The idea of blaming the U.S. for Canada's dollar shortage is ridiculous. The Ottawa Government is to blame more than anyone or anything else. Was it not they who restored the Canadian dollar to par? Did they not minimize the importance of Canada's gold-mining industry...
...Ottawa, the R.C.A.F., which had helped the U.S. expedition, received the news calmly. The Canadians have been doing a little mapping on their own, will soon announce the location of their own magnetic pole (just one) on Prince of Wales Island. The magnetic pole, according to the R.C.A.F., moves around quite a bit* -about 80 miles a day, usually (but not always) in an east-west direction-and at better-than-union hours: from...