Word: alberta
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...Alberta's Social Credit Premier William C. ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, the profitless acres of the neighboring Province of Saskatchewan have long seemed a fertile field for the extension of his political and economic theories. For nine years, Saskatchewan's staple crop-wheat -has either brought non-profit prices or has been burned out by successive droughts. With more than half the Province's 930,893 inhabitants on relief, conditions are fairly favorable for ambitious politicians with any kind of palliatives...
...organization is a federal credit system in which the state supervises production and distribution and compensates for the differential between production and consumption by issuing money against the state's natural resources. Three years ago, this economic bootstrap-hoisting act was embraced by "Bible Bill." He entered the Alberta lists with a vigorous campaign which wedded radicalism with evangelicalism. He emerged with 56 Social Credit seats of the 63 in Alberta's Legislative Assembly and the premiership. But even with this overwhelming majority, "Bible Bill's" numerous plantings of Social Credit seed never took root. This...
Public Service. A $500 gold medal was awarded to the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune for its news reports and editorials which started a movement for self-help among victims of the dust bowl. To the Edmonton (Alberta) Journal went a special bronze plaque for leadership in defense of a free press in the Province of Alberta...
Sidney Thompson Fairchild Fellowship in the Law of Railroads and other Public Utilities, to Malcolm M. MacIntyre, now teaching at the University of Alberta, Canada; LL.M. Harvard...
Obvious purpose of the three bills is to evade the North America Act, Canada's Constitution, and make Premier Aberhart the Dictator of Alberta. There were enough debt ridden farmers and pious adherents of his prophetic Bible Institute in Alberta so that last week even enemies of "Bible Bill" were afraid that if forced to go to the polls he might win again...