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With free quotations from the Bible and Abraham Lincoln, Gerry McGeer won seats in the British Columbia Legislature and the Canadian House of Commons and the mayoralty of Vancouver with the biggest majority in history. Since the rise of Alberta's Social Credit Premier William Aberhart in the next province, he has lost his self-assumed rank of "Canada's Greatest Money Reformer." Last winter he invited every celebrity he could think of to Vancouver's two-month celebration, hoped for President Roosevelt. One invitation reached London's Lord Mayor Sir Percy Vincent, a retired millinery...
...Brundage's other case was Mark Weston. Mary Edith Louise Weston was born in England 30 years ago. Among Englishwomen she was the best shotputter from 1924 to 1930, the best javelin thrower in 1927. Miss Weston had a close friend, named Alberta Bray. Two months ago Dr. L. R. Broster of London's Charing Cross Hospital performed two operations to complete Mary Weston's metamorphosis into masculinity. Said Dr. Broster: "Mr. Mark Weston, who was always brought up as a female, is male, and should continue life as such." As to whether Mark Weston could have...
Canada's Alberta was last week a proving ground for a money experiment so fantastic as to baffle financial experts. On the theory that fast-moving money would bring Prosperity to his battered Province, Alberta's Premier William Aberhart last fortnight issued a scrip he called "prosperity certificates" (TIME, Aug. 10.) They had dated spaces on the reverse side for 104 tiny if stamps which must be bought and attached week-by-week to keep the money "fresh" (i. e., acceptable). Premier Aberhart had produced a "money" that was actually cheaper to spend than to save...
...this Aberhart mummery so vexed the Canadian Manufacturers' Association that its Alberta branch announced that it flatly refused to accept a single prosperity certificate. Local manufacturers, wholesalers and large retailers loudly protested, but issued no such ultimatum. Small shopkeepers, many of them pious adherents of the Premier's Prophetic Bible Institute, declared they were ready to take as many velocity dollars as they could without going insolvent "to give the plan a chance." Premier Aberhart and Cabinet decided to accept part of their salaries in prosperity certificates. First Alberta community approached by the Premier to put his scheme...
...First Alberta citizens to be faced in a big way with velocity dollars were the unemployed. Their dole hereafter will be paid in prosperity certificates and, unless they are able to spend these within the first week after they get them, they will have to worry about money to buy stamps. This haste to spend is counted on by Premier Aberhart to increase the speed and number of transactions in Alberta to such an extent that the terrific turnover will bring Prosperity, as everyone tries to spend his Aberhart dollars before he has to buy more stamps for them...