Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This world will at last come into a time of peace," the Premier of Alberta said last week. "The earth will be as full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover...
...does every Sunday, Premier Ernest Charles Manning had stepped out of his role as boss of oil-booming Alberta, and assumed his other position as head of the Prophetic Bible Institute in downtown Calgary. To some 250 people, who had braved 12°-below-zero weather to hear him, the pale, slender politician preached in a twangy, compelling voice. Calgary's radio station CFCN carried his weekly Back to the Bible Hour to the rest of Alberta...
...then more worldly books. When the depression was at its height they read Maurice Colbourne's Unemployment or War, expounding the theory of Social Credit for the redistribution of wealth, as originated by England's Major Clifford Douglas. Aberhart and Manning decided it was the answer to Alberta's problems...
...converts naively tried to sell the Social Credit theory to the Alberta government. When they were laughed off, they resolved to form their own party, campaigned up & down the province at political rallies that opened with prayers and hymns. Depression-hit Alberta voted the Social Crediters into office with 51 of the 57 House seats. Ernest Manning, at 27, became Minister of Trade and Industry under Premier Aberhart...