Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, liverish, open letter to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Chicago's James T. Farrell, one of the most earnest authors and worst writers in the U.S., took issue with Canadian censorship. The reason: Ottawa had placed a ban on importation of his new novel, Bernard Clare, a lacklustre portrait of the artist as a young...
Then Minister Howe dropped his own private bomb. Said he: three pounds of fissionable material would obliterate Ottawa (pop. 215,000). With no argument all parties supported the bill...
Into the oval, colonial-style conference room in Ottawa's Parliament Building strode nine determined members of the Canadian Congress of Labor's potent Wage Committee. Before bustling, bumbling Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, they laid a demand that the Government relax its vise-tight wage control. The C.C.L.'s potent argument: the wave of strikes which threatens Canada...
...Sheep's Clothing. In Ottawa, a hungry patron stalked into a lunchroom on meatless Tuesday, thrust a struggling sheep on a popeyed waiter, barked: "Make me a mutton sandwich...
Washington was careful not to slight Ottawa's sovereignty or her ties with Great Britain. The U.S. would share the cost with Canada. But otherwise neither partner's foreign policy would be tied to the other. The purpose was purely military, to build a bastion against attack from the north. Nobody mentioned the name of any likely attacker from that quarter...