Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seeing Prime Minister Mackenzie King* walk around unguarded. Many an Ottawan has had his first glimpse of the P.M. as he got off a train, ambled slowly through Union Station with only a secretary in attendance. He likes to pop in on parties unannounced; at one gathering in Ottawa a fortnight ago his presence was not noticed until he came up behind another guest with a platter of snacks and said: "Wouldn't you like one of these? They're quite good...
...Ottawans, who like the free & easy manner of their own bigwigs, all this seemed like unnecessary fuss & feathers. Said the Ottawa Journal: "This is the American way.. . . The fact is that President Truman could walk alone in any Ottawa street ... in as complete safety as he enjoyed when he was a haberdasher in a small Midwest town.* He might be asked for his autograph, but that would...
...stays in office until April 20 of next year (highly probable), he will break the alltime record for Empire Prime Ministers, set by Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain from April 1721 to February 1742. *The bemused Journal should mind its geography. Kansas City has 400,000 population; Ottawa...
...star shot high in the ecclesiastical firmament of Canada last week. In Ottawa, the Apostolic Delegate announced that the Most Rev. Maurice Roy, Bishop of Three Rivers and the youngest Roman Catholic prelate in the Dominion, had been named by the Pope to head the Dominion's oldest diocese, as eleventh Archbishop of Quebec. He will succeed the late Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve...
...GRAY Ottawa...