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Social Credit, as preached by pallid Premier William C. ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, never really got started in Alberta. Most of its legislation was vetoed by the Dominion Government or turned down by the courts. But for six years Bible Bill maintained himself in office by an expert mixture of patronage, oratory and extraordinary legislation. One Aberhart law pettishly forbade the courts to declare any Social Credit legislation unconstitutional...
...days, while John Lewis curled his long lip in scorn over every Presidential appeal for some kind of settlement, his pallid-faced miners obeyed his orders, roamed the drab hills, picketed gates, shot and were shot at, and explained to their wives and kids, in the gaudy little parlors of their ugly little houses, why they were...
...Pallid, with a pale mustache, short and chunky in build, he is talkative, friendly, and regards himself as a policy-carrier-out, rather than a policymaker...
Admirers of old-fashioned bread point out that not only does today's mass-produced bread taste as pallid as it looks but that it is less nutritious than the kind mother made. The bleached white flour U. S. bakers use contains only 12 to 15% as much vitamin B1 as whole-wheat flour. Last week the National Research Council, a group of scientists organized by Woodrow Wilson in 1916 for Preparedness, announced that part of this deficiency will soon be made...
...lurid propaganda paintings (reaching Mexico's illiterate peons far more effectively than printed words) covered walls from Nuevo Leon to Yucatan and revived the art of fresco painting on a scale unequaled since the Italian Renaissance. The three: stocky, effusive Diego Rivera; grim, brooding José Clemente Orozco; pallid, green-eyed, conspiratorial David Alfaro Siquieros...