Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruling body, or if it was time for a change. When the convention met, a fortnight ago, Delegate Joseph Smallwood, 46, who had turned from writing to farming and from pig raising to politics, came out flatly for confederation. He proposed that the convention send a delegation to Ottawa at once to ask for terms. It was just like old times. Delegate Kenneth Brown, president of the Fishermen's Protective Union, jumped to his feet, roared his opposition with such vigor that he collapsed and had to be carried out. When just about every delegate...
Amid the hubbub, Ottawa maintained a discreet silence. But all knew that Canada would like to take Newfoundland and Labrador into the family. Poor cousin Newfoundland, with its national debt trimmed to $74,000,000 and with $28,669,000 in the bank, looked more attractive than she had in decades. Moreover, her war-built airports have helped make Newfoundland the aerial crossroads of the North Atlantic, a new, potent bargaining point. Of the five major airports, Canada holds two (Torbay and Goose Bay), Newfoundland one (Gander) and the U.S. two (Harmon Field and Argentia) -most of them still involved...
...storied coronation sword, Szczerbiec. Their intrinsic value was in the millions, their historic value above price. In Canada they were carefully stored: 24 cases with the Redemptorist Fathers at the Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré, eight with the sisters of the Precious Blood convent in Ottawa, two in the vaults of the Bank of Montreal in Ottawa...
...Ottawa, where squatter chief Franklyn E. Hanratty's Veterans' Housing League had won considerable man-in-the-street support and a measure of respectability, people took a new and harder look at his organization. The Ottawa Journal thought it saw some Communists in the membership, and said so. Ottawa's Citizen wagged a warning finger about Communist "disrupting of established order...
...case of the "lost" treasures came to light last night when the present Polish minister to Ottawa, Dr. Alfred Fiderkiewics, charged that valuable gold and silver threaded gobelin tapestries and other art works and historical momentos were "missing" when he took office here a few months...