Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resounding triumph. Running in a crowded field (six candidates in all) plump, 42-year-old Maurice Hartt ran thousands of votes ahead of both Independent Paul Masse and Communist Michael Buhay. The fact that the Liberal Party's best bilingual orators journeyed over from Ottawa for the windup of a slam-bang campaign, helped. But Winner Hartt almost surely owed his victory most of all to the electorate's change of mind about Communism. The Hartt victory also indicated approval of the Federal Government's handling of the Russian spy-ring investigations...
...House of Commons (now 127 seats against 117 for the combined Opposition). It also seemed to indicate a brightened party future. The Liberals, after three by-election defeats in a row, now had won two straight (in Cartier and in Riche-lieu-Verchères last December). In Ottawa, Liberal masterminds sighed with relief...
...Down Brands. Thanks to his father's brewing interests, Taylor was raised in the sight & sound of industry. Fresh from McGill University, he had a whirl at running his own bus service, then spent seven years with an Ottawa firm learning the investment business. Named a director of his father's Brading Breweries in Ottawa, he picked up other Ontario breweries, formed the Brewing Corp. of Canada. As president and general manager, he whittled 90 brands down to nine, and formed the Brewing Corp. of America to sell his beer...
...guest, he has been living with his wife Svetliana, his son Andrei and his baby daughter, in different places in eastern Canada. Always moving, he has been guarded 24 hours a day by from one to eight R.C.M.P. constables. When his daughter was born, his wife entered an Ottawa hospital under an assumed name and a Mountie posed as the father. Mounties shopped for his baby's clothes...
Financially, Gouzenko is fairly well fixed. Cosmopolitan magazine paid him a reported $50,000 for his story of the spy ring. In addition, he is assured of a small but steady income. A fortnight ago a Canadian industrialist walked into the Justice Building at Ottawa with a plan for Gouzenko. He explained that he knew "seven or eight other men" who would be willing to contribute a fund to buy a Dominion Government annuity for Gouzenko. Told that $24,000 would buy an annuity paying him $100 a month for life, the businessman said:"Never mind the other fellows...