Word: albertans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign, "Bible Bill" had promised each & every Albertan $25 per month in what he called "basic dividends." Few days after his election many an Albertan removed his savings from the Province...
Money is, by definition, as good as people think it is, and Premier Aberhart's money was last week about as good as Albertans think Premier Aberhart is. Most merchants were willing to accept the certificates up to the total of their sales taxes, which Premier Aberhart had said were payable in certificates. Beyond that point Albertan merchants began to balk. Prosperity Certificates began appearing in Sunday collection plates and the Edmonton Journal asserted that only two of Edmonton's 218 stores were accepting unlimited quantities of scrip...
...prairie Province of Alberta, unctuous Premier William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, who was elected on a promise to pay every Albertan $25 per month, finally last week started presses printing "prosperity certificates." These Alberta folk promptly named "velocity dollars...