Word: alberta
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...most distasteful chore of the week, the Dominion Premier, who holds his House of Commons seat from Alberta, made a Federal loan of $2,500,000 to that Province's newly-victorious Social Credit Premier William Aberhart (TIME, Sept. 2 & 16). Such seemed to be the price charged by Social Crediteers for withholding their attacks from Mr. Bennett personally in the election. Other provinces of Canada's West simultaneously ganged up for loans on the Federal Premier who finally approved last week provincial loans totaling...
...Alberta new Social Credit Premier Aberhart, having got his $2,500,000 loan, announced that he was leaving for Detroit to confer with Radio Priest Coughlin. Said William Aberhart: "I am going to see Father Coughlin because I am in search of the most expert advice on this continent! We do not need Henry Ford's assistance but I should like to talk to him also because of his interest in economics...
Urged by reporters to define Social Credit as he intends to practice it, Premier Aberhart obliged: ''Briefly, what Social Credit means is that we are going to take what we produce, increase it scientifically, and distribute it to all. Like any company the Province of Alberta will deposit security in the banks, then instruct the banks to credit we citizen-shareholders with $25 each monthly. The citizen will draw on that credit, his 'dividend check' being the same thing as cash-and naturally just as good...
...Please!" Just where, Alberta wondered, was resourceful William Aberhart going to get the $25 he has promised to pay each bona fide citizen of Alberta every month after setting up the system known as Social Credit? Adolf Hitler's first moves when he reached power were adroitly Conservative, and so last week were William Aberhart's. The new Premier began by deprecating the hostility to King George of the previous Cabinet and Legislature which voted that His Majesty was not to appoint another Lieutenant Governor to Alberta. Mr. Aberhart will be glad to advise the King to send...
...mails instead of the cables in seeking aid from London Engineer-Economist Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, ''Father of Social Credit." In about ten days or two weeks, said Premier Aberhart. he expects to get a letter from Major Douglas asking for information about conditions in Alberta, and after this has been supplied and cogitated the Major is expected to arrive at Edmonton...