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Conceivably, Premier Aberhart might have maintained Alberta's financial honor by borrowing from the Dominion Treasury, which has already lent Alberta $26,000,000. Conceivably. Dominion Finance Minister Charles Avery Dunning might have exercised his right to use Dominion dollars to pay off Alberta's debts. Neither Premier nor Finance Minister chose such a course. "Bible Bill" Aberhart evidently was loath to give the Dominion additional financial reins on his Social Credit government. As for Finance Minister Dunning, he washed his hands of Alberta's de- fault, observing: "If Social Credit is sound and good, it will...
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...Chicago, held up by a gunman, Street Car Conductor Thomas Gough said, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Don't you know this is Lent?" The man blinked, ran away...
...King Edward cheerfully lent his Household Trumpeters to the old folk who ceremoniously assert every year that the "rightful" King is the descendant of beheaded Charles I's daughter Henrietta. Current pretender is Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.* This year the various Stuart societies postponed their technical treason two months out of consideration for the House of Windsor's bereavement...
were turned out to pasture, at the hours their betters are engaged on weekdays earning their daily bread; if the Church would bring itself into consonance with the ways of modern living ... we would not have a Lent of languorous, lackadaisical observance, or much worse of none, but a Holy Week of new intensiveness...