Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dollars for Planes. Last week a mission* returned to Ottawa with word that Canada could make North American's F-86 jet fighter. Also in prospect was a license on a U.S. transport (perhaps Fairchild's C-82) to be built in Canada...
...Atlantic security with the five Western Union powers. For four months the talks had continued, ending only when officials felt they had gone as far as they could without further direction from their governments. Just how far discussions had gone on such all-important topics as military aid, neither Ottawa nor Washington was saying...
This week, before setting out to win friends in the Maritimes, the Drews stopped off in Ottawa to settle the business of George's seat in Parliament. A safe one was found: the Ottawa south riding of Carleton, where Tory Russel Boucher agreed to step down. In 25 elections Carleton has returned Tories 25 times, including Prime Ministers Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Robert Borden. The Drews could take that record as a good omen...
...foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Ottawa, balding Eugene Griffin handles many a special job for Colonel Bertie McCormick. Last winter, when the Colonel heard that an un-American blight was mottling the Ivy League, Griffin toured the Harvard, Yale and Princeton campuses. He proved (to the Tribune's satisfaction at least) that the Colonel had heard right. This fall the Trib got around to Dartmouth. When Griffin arrived, notebook in hand and hatchet up his sleeve, he got a cordial welcome. President John Sloan Dickey had reserved him a room at the Hanover Inn, and offered...
Furthermore, the Dartmouth rebuttal had touched a tender spot. One of the alumni who saw it was none other than Tribune Managing Editor "Pat" Maloney (Dartmouth '13). The Trib promptly called Ottawa to ask Griffin about that "moon is green" crack. Griffin issued a blustering denial: "The Dartmouth bull about me was just a lot of goddamn lies by some scared, chickentrack Dickey jerks who can't contradict what I wrote. They were afraid the alumni will look into what's going on at Dartmouth, so they tried like hell to get me fired...