Word: aberhart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most distasteful chore of the week, the Dominion Premier, who holds his House of Commons seat from Alberta, made a Federal loan of $2,500,000 to that Province's newly-victorious Social Credit Premier William Aberhart (TIME, Sept. 2 & 16). Such seemed to be the price charged by Social Crediteers for withholding their attacks from Mr. Bennett personally in the election. Other provinces of Canada's West simultaneously ganged up for loans on the Federal Premier who finally approved last week provincial loans totaling...
...leader, William Aberhart, whose ancestors were German, followed the tactic of Adolf Hitler in not standing for election to a legislative seat but devoting all his energies to boosting the Social Credit Party into power. This accomplished, plain Mr. Aberhart accepted from one of his Party henchmen last week the seat he had to have before he could be named Premier...
...outgoing United Farmers Cabinet of Premier Reid had been so utterly routed that their party failed to win a single seat, but these rustic Radicals departed with the satisfaction of knowing that they had presented Premier Aberhart, whom they consider still more radical, with a virtually bankrupt provincial treasury and a run on the provincial savings banks which had been ordered last week to pay nothing for the present to depositors...
...Please!" Just where, Alberta wondered, was resourceful William Aberhart going to get the $25 he has promised to pay each bona fide citizen of Alberta every month after setting up the system known as Social Credit? Adolf Hitler's first moves when he reached power were adroitly Conservative, and so last week were William Aberhart's. The new Premier began by deprecating the hostility to King George of the previous Cabinet and Legislature which voted that His Majesty was not to appoint another Lieutenant Governor to Alberta. Mr. Aberhart will be glad to advise the King to send...
Next Premier Aberhart delayed the installation of Social Credit by resorting to the mails instead of the cables in seeking aid from London Engineer-Economist Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, ''Father of Social Credit." In about ten days or two weeks, said Premier Aberhart. he expects to get a letter from Major Douglas asking for information about conditions in Alberta, and after this has been supplied and cogitated the Major is expected to arrive at Edmonton...