Word: aberhart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That, plus the $25 monthly "dividend," would satisfy most farmers, and Albertans are mostly farmers. On the morning after election day they itched to know how long it will take to set up Alberta's proposed "State Credit House" and start paying dividends. Said William Aberhart: "It will take at least 18 months...
...swank abode in London and contrives to rent his ideas for fat fees. In 1934 the Alberta Government which was thrown out last week paid him $30,000 to go to Calgary and expound views which they proceeded to ignore but which fired High School Principal William Aberhart and his Prophetic Bible Institute, spurred them on to victory. Major Douglas last week was still technically under contract to the Government of Alberta and Messiah Aberhart has said, "Though we do not see eye to eye in all respects, Major Douglas will be invited to superintend in Alberta the inauguration...
...least be tested on a limited scale. In Alberta it was freely predicted that Messiah Aberhart will never be able to make Social Credit work unless he makes himself a Dictator. Canadian jurists meanwhile believed that Social Credit as proposed in the Province of Alberta is "contrary to the North America Act" which is the fundamental law of Canada's Constitution. Being unconstitutional it should present the Government of Alberta with insuperable problems leading to a stalemate. Last week this thought kept holders of Alberta bonds from dumping them overboard. All Canada's great banks and nationally spread...
After pious rejoicing at the Prophetic Bible Institute and devout singing of Our God, Our Help in Ages Past, Messiah Aberhart announced that he was ready to accept the call to be Alberta's Premier, declared: "It has been a revolution not of bullets but of ballots...
...economic pontiff, William Aberhart makes his followers sign pledges that they accept Social Credit "on faith," forbids them to debate or argue its merits...