Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital, Canadian authorities faced a problem. Here was a man personally responsible for 28 enemy casualties, who had been promoted to corporal in the field. But he was not a Canadian. The colonel referred the case to Headquarters in England; Headquarters in England passed it on to Headquarters in Ottawa. Finally the late Prime Minister Mackenzie King found the solution: "If he's not a Canadian, we'll make...
Brown, Dartmouth, M.I.T., and Williams will be the other New England representatives, and Loyola of Montreal, St. Patrick's of Ottawa, and R.P.I. will round out the eight-team field...
...angry newsmen were herded about by police, fenced in by red-tape, kept from all but the dreariest routine reporting. For example, just before the official state dinner at Ottawa, a press officer met the assembled correspondents and held up three red tickets. That was all there would be for the dinner, one each for a Canadian, an American and a British reporter. The chosen correspondents would have to wear white ties, and would get no dinner. Shouted the angry reporters: "Send the tickets back." None went...
...royal cruise along the Ottawa River, the press boat chugged a good 100 yards behind the royal barge, ran out of gas and finally had to be paddled to shore. By week's end, things were going more smoothly, thanks, in one case, to Philip. When he attended a Toronto Board of Trade luncheon, the Mounties barred the door to six newshens with tickets. The luncheon, they were told, was stag. The newshens' clucking reached Philip. Said he: "Have them admitted...
...political reporter and acting city editor for the Winnipeg Free Press, MacKay covered the 1946-'47 atom spy trials in Ottawa and states that there was very little sensationalism or hysteria associated with the trials...