Word: albertan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hosts promptly whisked her ten miles out to the Sarcee Indian reserve. There, during the Indians' annual Easter dance, Chief David Crowchild decreed that she should be known to all Sarcees as Sootz-ah-tsa (Shining Star). As Barbara Ann headed back to her Palliser Hotel suite, Calgary Albertan Reporter Art Evans took over for the final ecstatic burble: "Obviously tired but wearing the thrill of her Indian adoption like a happy mantle, Shining Star quietly slipped away to her tepee, there to dream of cool waters, soft winds, and the Great Manitou who guards the sleep...
...paper, the end looked wonderful. Alberta's Bill of Rights guaranteed the fundamental rights of worship, speech, lawful assembly, and a few more. Among the added starters: 1) a minimum income of $600 a year to every adult Albertan, 2) a pension for all from 19 to 60 years who were unemployed or unemployable; 3) all the necessaries of life and education for those under 19; and 4) retirement benefits for folks over...
Spare, intense Premier Manning took the court's decision in silence. Eleven years after the late William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart swept into power on a pledge of $25-a-month-credit-to-every-Albertan, the provincial government was still Social Credit in name only...
...Invaders Repelled. Fresh from its triumph in Saskatchewan (TIME, June 26), the socialist C.C.F. invaded neighboring Alberta. Ever since the late William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart dazzled Albertans with the promise to pay them $25 a month for life, the Social Crediters have ruled the province. Last week businessmen and bankers who once fought "Bible Bill" supported his successor, 35-year-old Ernest Charles Manning. The result: Social Crediters, 47; C.C.F., 2; Independents, 3; Veterans' candidate, I; with Social Crediters leading in the four remaining ridings. Said an Albertan: "We didn't want to swap a light case...
...native Albertan, 44 years old, Solon Low neither drinks nor smokes. He first became interested in Social Credit's principle (artificial creation of purchasing power) when he was an economics student in crackpot-breeding Southern California. In 1935, he won a seat in Alberta's legislature as a Social Crediter. He became Provincial Treasurer in 1937. One of the least radical of Social Crediters, he has labored mightily, and in vain, to refund Alberta's $140,000,000 debt...