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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...
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...
...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...