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Along with this frontal attack came a potshot from within McNaughton's own Liberal Party, and the Cabinet itself. In Ottawa's Press Gallery, Navy Minister Angus L. Macdonald plunked himself down behind the green-topped poker table, answered a question thrown out by Ken Cragg of the Tory-minded Toronto Globe & Mail: "What about this business of ships being sunk...
...McNaughton was run down and tired. The people wondered when & how all the hubbub and hostility would end. Not many really thought the bruised and battered Defense Minister would ask the Prime Minister to relieve him of his job. But that possibility could not be ruled out. Said the Ottawa Journal: "Many experts [believe] that McNaughton won't answer the bell [for the next round], that Mackenzie King . . . will advise him to throw in the towel...
...Toronto-New York City flight were these new routes for Trans-Canada Air Lines: Halifax to Boston, Toronto to Cleveland, Toronto to Chicago, Port Arthur to Duluth, Victoria to Seattle, Whitehorse to Fairbanks. The new U.S. commercial routes: New York City (or Boston) to Quebec, New York City to Ottawa (or Montreal), Washington to Ottawa (or Montreal), Seattle to Whitehorse...
Promptly a Canadian Naval officer rushed to the U.S. commander to apologize. Furiously, the Navy Minister at Ottawa, Angus Macdonald, ordered his Pacific Command to get to the bottom of the trouble. A board of inquiry sailed into the case at top speed, pausing only long enough to mutter that the first reports were "greatly exaggerated...
Critics hoped that the big national show, which will be seen in Ottawa and Quebec next, would give contemporary artists "a sense of tradition and . . . nurtured confidence." Plain citizens regarded the show with that native Canadian modesty that has in it a hint of the defensive. Reported Toronto's weekly Saturday Night: "It is not an exhibition of masterpieces that will cause you to gasp before every other canvas-Canada's contribution to world art has not yet been that distinguished, but it is a respectable collection . . . Canadians may take a certain pride...