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...finally said 'yes.' Then he said, as I paid the check, 'By the way, Homer, my sister's aunt and her family from Ottawa County are going to be down there week after next. I told them at home to never mind, you would look after her. She wants to see the town, and she would like to visit the House in session, and the Senate, too, and Mount Vernon and a few places. She would like to meet the President, but I cannot expect too much of you. ... Anyway, she will be there three days...
...Ottawa Journal editorialized last week: "In this country there have been no important wage changes within the last six months. If, therefore, our corporations have been doing well within those six months, what is their justification for boosting prices in order to do better? Don't they realize that by trying to get more, they are merely inviting demands for further wage increases...
...that it needed more information. It picked a six-man delegation to talk over with the British Government 1) a return to full self-governing dominion status, or 2) a retention of the present seven-man Commission of Government. Then it appointed a second delegation to find out if Ottawa would welcome Newfoundland as a tenth province...
...times, William Lyon Mackenzie King bundled himself up and went out for a short walk along the shore or tackled the piney woods bordering the golf course. But mostly he stayed close to his sixth-floor suite in the Cavalier Hotel, in constant touch by telephone with Ottawa...
Just before 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, Mackenzie King walked down a third-floor corridor in Ottawa's Parliament Building, and turned into the comfortable lounge of the Press Gallery. For once there was no one at the card table; only a few reporters were in the room. But the P.M., eyes a-twinkle at his little surprise, waited while the rest were rounded up. Then he gave out his news...