Word: billing
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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...
...Douglas. The Douglas economic organization is a federal credit system in which the state supervises production and distribution and compensates for the differential between production and consumption by issuing money against the state's natural resources. Three years ago, this economic bootstrap-hoisting act was embraced by "Bible Bill." He entered the Alberta lists with a vigorous campaign which wedded radicalism with evangelicalism. He emerged with 56 Social Credit seats of the 63 in Alberta's Legislative Assembly and the premiership. But even with this overwhelming majority, "Bible Bill's" numerous plantings of Social Credit seed never...
When he took office, "Bible Bill" asked Ottawa for a loan of $18,000,000, received only $2,850,000. When he tried to put through a law muzzling the hostile press and making all banks Social Credit institutions, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...
...Bible Bill's" answer to this legal defeat was his spirited invasion of Saskatchewan. Moving East, with his slick radio voice, his politico-religious antics, his lessons on finance & economy, "Bible Bill" drew such huge crowds wherever he moved that he gave faraway orthodox Ottawa the scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would...
...Austrian loans, are unlikely to accept such a solution until the loans are settled. Britain holds an ax over the Reich because she can deduct German debts from the money Britons owe German exporters. Last week, the potent Association of British Chambers of Commerce urged that the exchange clearing bill, passed in 1934 but never implemented, be enforced. But as such a move would blight Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's present hopes of an Anglo-German appeasement, it was deemed stillborn...