Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian Province of Alberta last week defaulted payment of $3,200,000 principal on two matured 6% bond issues issued in 1916, thus became the first Canadian Government to welsh on a financial obligation. Elected on a platform promising ''$25 a month dividends to every citizen." Alberta's sanctimonious, bulb-eyed Premier William C. Aberhart explained: "We haven't the money. I'm sorry." Fact was that ''Bible Bill" Aberhart had inherited a $150,000,000 load of indebtedness from his predecessors, had only $140,000 with which to make an interest "token...
...engineer by the name of Major Clifford Hugh Douglas who spends much time tending the delightful garden of his rural English home and knocking together small boats. Last week Major Douglas had had enough of the farce which has been going on in the Canadian province of Alberta in the name of his Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2, et seq.). Taking pen in hand, the Major resigned his $10,000 per annum job as Alberta's adviser, canceled his proposed voyage to oversee the setting up in Alberta of Social Credit. This tended to leave stranded the rotund, frog...
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...
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...
Disciplinarians the world over took heart last week from the action of the school board of Edmonton, Alberta. Concluding a discussion of unruly pupils, the board decreed that henceforth they shall be whipped with straps of a standard size. For pupils in Grade 6 or higher the strap shall be 16 to 19 in. long, 2 to 2½ in. wide, ⅛ to ¼ in. thick. For smaller bottoms, smaller straps...