Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Province of Alberta in Canada a political party . . . promised $25 a month to every worthy citizen. ... If there is any place on the American continent where the old conservative educational ideals hold full sway, it is the Province of Alberta. There they are innocent of 'modern' educational methods. They are guiltless of progressive education. They center their attention upon reading, writing and arithmetic. Nevertheless the citizens of Alberta voted to pay themselves $25 a month...
Since Clara Phillips beat out Alberta Meadows' brains near Los Angeles 13 years ago, a hammer seemed to California editors the most glamorous of all murder weapons. Last week a Los Angeles citizen interested enough to buy copies of all his local newspapers could have pieced together the following picturesque account of Mrs. Willys' feat...
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...
While Premier Bennett anguished and Premier Aberhart communed at Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, an extremely tall, imposing British cleric in black gaiters and frock coat landed in Manhattan on his way to Alberta. As newshawks swarmed around him the very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, observed: "Newspapermen? Ah yes. Terrible people! You aren't usually so eager for a sermon. Well, this is my chance...
...young people in America," but in older England, "the idea must be put to soak for a while." Evidently afraid Social Credit will fail in the hands of Premier Aberhart, the Dean rapped: "I can assure you that a failure, even the collapse of the Government in Alberta, would not mean the end of Social Credit. ... At present banks create money in the interest of Finance. The people should create money in the interest of Production! You get inflation only if you create money faster than you can produce goods...