Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in four full weeks, William Lyon Mackenzie King stepped out of his office in Ottawa's Parliament Building, padded across the corridor with a portfolio under his arm, pushed aside the green. curtains and stepped into the House of Commons. There was a pattering of applause and some members walked to his desk to shake his hand. The 72-year-old Prime Minister had looked wan and tired when he went away. Now he was ruddy, rested and in high spirits. A month of soaking up southern sunshine had done him good...
...Washington to visit old friends. At the naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, he chatted with Cordell Hull. In Harry Truman's White House office, the P.M. talked alone with the President. Presumably, besides discussing common defense problems, they also made plans for the President's visit to Ottawa-some time in June, the P.M. said later, and "the President plans to bring Mrs. Truman with him, and possibly their daughter Margaret...
Back home at the Union Station in Ottawa, newsmen, photographers and Government bigwigs, headed by External Affairs Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent, welcomed Mr. King. A little girl wedged close to him to get her first look at Canada's Prime Minister. Said she: "Gee, he's got a lot of hair in his ears...
...Neighbor Vandenberg: "Many of our interests run with those of the union. We weaken our position by our lack of membership." The Government long ago decided that it would not occupy the 22nd chair until the people of Canada prodded it, and last week there was little prodding. The Ottawa Journal epitomized the Dominion's attitude: "Wouldn't it be better for us to stand aloof-working with nobody in particular, but the friends...
...cavernous Victorian office in Ottawa's forbidding Langevin Block, the Northwest Territories Council last week held its 171st session. The six public servants and one private citizen who make up the council are rulers over 1,253,438 square miles-more than a third of Canada-and over 12,028 whites, Indians and Eskimos whose cabins, tents and igloos dot the continent's most sparsely settled land (see map). For 42 years the council has met infrequently and in secret. Last week, for the first time, the session was public. Henceforth meetings will be monthly and open...