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...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 prevail. But I don't know what Social Credit is. I may be dense." That was the way Alberta's bondholders felt when, on the heels of the default, Premier Aberhart rushed through its first two readings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Refinance & Raptures | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...newspapers. . . . The real issue is whether Miss Stretz . . . was guilty of murder. . . . But the defense attorney ... is trying also to paint the dead man as some kind of a sadist or other fiend-although he wasn't sadist enough to put four bullets in his lover. . . . The fault lies partly with the newspapers and partly with the lawyers. Both are to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trial by Reporters | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

MAIN LINE WEST-Paul Horgan-Harper ($2.50). Tale of a sporty drummer of horse-&-buggy days in the Midwest, of his wife and son who tried to do better. More ambitious than Author Horgan's prize-winning The Fault of Angels but not as entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Impatient Dr. Ambedkar summoned 10,000 raggle-taggle Untouchables to Nasik near Bombay last autumn, said de liberately: "I had the misfortune of being born with the stigma of Untouchability. But it is not my fault. I will not die a Hindu, for this is in my power. I say to you, abandon Hinduism and adopt any other religion which gives you equality of status and treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Untouchable Lincoln | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Glidden, always a smooth tournament player went through three quick games with hardly a fault, making numerous "boast shots" which crack three walls and finally nick a corner to fall dead on the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G. G. GLIDDEN DEFEATS R. W. GILDER IN SQUASH | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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