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Eager to get something on Messiah William Aberhart, radiorating Premier of Alberta who won control of that province with "Social Credit" promises of $25 per month to every citizen, is nearly every other politician in Canada. This week they at last had something on "Bible Bill...
...Premier enlivened his remarks by telling the story of the engaged young man who calls on his fiancée in a maternity ward only to have her exclaim: "If this is what marriage means, John, our engagement is off!" To the thousands of devoted followers of William Aberhart who are paying members of his Prophetic Bible Institute, there is nothing about this story which makes it unsuitable for the family circle. Deluged, however, was the Canadian Radio Commission with telephone calls, telegrams and written demands that Social Credit in the person of William Aberhart be curbed...
Insisting with laudable accuracy that most critics of the Douglas plan have little or no understanding of the basic Douglas conceptions, Mr. Larkin added: "Similarly the Alberta-Aberhart dividends-by-taxation program has been widely confused with the Douglas proposals...
Social Credit. Forty-seven candidates were run, exclusively in the West, by the not-yet-national Social Credit Party of Alberta's new radiorating Premier William Aberhart, a great admirer of Father Coughlin, a restive disciple of the calm British originator of the Social Credit theory, Major Douglas, and a political bigot who makes his followers take vows to read nothing and listen to nothing uttered by anyone against either himself or Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2 & 16). The Aberhart party, victorious in Alberta, offered to pay all Canadians $25 per month in credit if and when a Social...
Said Father Coughlin after conferring with Premier Aberhart: "Social Credit is nothing new and has been in the Constitution of the United States since it was written...