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" Douglas said that Social Crediters want to build a new civilization based upon absolute economic security for the individual — where “... they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree ; and none shall make them afraid .” In keeping with this goal, Douglas was opposed to all forms of taxation on real property.
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Douglas M. Pratt, president of the PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is reviewing the work on the El.
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon said the economy is expected to advance by a whopping 8% next year, paving the way for lower taxes.
Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.
Historian Douglas Brinkley said gonzo journalism requires virtually no rewriting and frequently uses transcribed interviews and verbatim telephone conversations.
If one film could be said to have established a new high-bench mark for special effects, it would be 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, who assembled his own effects team ( Douglas Trumbull, Tom Howard, Con Pedersen and Wally Veevers ) rather than use an in-house effects unit.
Notable examples include David Tennant, born David McDonald, who said in an interview that he adopted the surname " Tennant " after seeing Neil Tennant in a copy of Smash Hits, Nathan Lane, whose birth name Joseph Lane was already in use, Stewart Granger, whose birth name was James Stewart, and Michael Keaton, born Michael Douglas.
Gurney was also suspected in Douglas's death, as Douglas was said to have been carrying more money than Gurney subsequently delivered with the body.
Historian David Potter ( 1976 ) said the emotional effect of Brown's raid was greater than the philosophical effect of the Lincoln – Douglas debates, and that his raid revealed a deep division between North and South.
Douglas later said that Malden became a " mentor " and someone he " admired and loved deeply ".
When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches in Greenville in 1858 during a campaign for the United States Senate, Douglas said: " Ladies and gentlemen it gives me great and supreme gratification and pleasure to see this vast concourse of people assembled to hear me upon this my first visit to Old Bond.
As I said, Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes.
The president privately said of Long that along with General Douglas MacArthur, " e was one of the two most dangerous men in America.
In Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man, writer Douglas Heyes said, " That was one of the great things about The Twilight Zone.
In 1440, in the King's name, an invitation is said to have been sent to the young 6th Earl of Douglas and his brother, eleven-year-old David, to visit the king at Edinburgh Castle in November 1440.
General Douglas MacArthur said that Curtin was " one of the greatest of the wartime statesmen ".
Her last appearance is said to have been as Lady Randolph in John Home's Douglas at Covent Garden in 1798.
Assessing the novel's legacy, philosopher Douglas Den Uyl described The Fountainhead as relatively neglected compared to her later novel, Atlas Shrugged, and said, " our problem is to find those topics that arise clearly with The Fountainhead and yet do not force us to read it simply through the eyes of Atlas Shrugged.
As Buster Douglas said in an interview years later '“ I thought Tyson was getting up until I had seen him looking for that mouth piece and then I knew that he was really hurt.
Douglas vs Holyfield was a reported $ 24. 6 million payday for Buster, though years later he said on the Howard Stern show he walked away with $ 1. 5 million after taxes, managers, trainers, etc.
However, there were many vocal critics of the Government action, including New Democratic Party leader Tommy Douglas, who said, " The government, I submit, is using a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.
Social Credit philosophy is best summed by Douglas when he said, " Systems were made for men, and not men for systems, and the interest of man which is self-development, is above all systems, whether theological, political or economic.
" There were little soup kitchens run by the Salvation Army and the churches ", Douglas said later.
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On the Latin American front, the President held talks with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before sending him to Uruguay and the Inter-American Economic and Social Council ( which the President himself had originally hoped to attend ).
* Allen, Douglas, W., and Reed, Clyde, G., 2006, " The Duel of Honor: Screening for Unobservable Social Capital ," American Law and Economics Review: 1 – 35.
Social credit is an economic philosophy developed by C. H. Douglas ( 1879 – 1952 ), a British engineer, who wrote a book by that name in 1924.
Social Credit is described by Douglas as " the policy of a philosophy "; he called his philosophy " practical Christianity ".
Social crediters, and Douglas himself, have been criticized for spreading anti-semitism.
John L. Finlay, in his book, Social Credit: The English Origins, wrote, “ Anti-Semitism of the Douglas kind, if it can be called anti-Semitism at all, may be fantastic, may be dangerous even, in that it may be twisted into a dreadful form, but it is not itself vicious nor evil .”
* Douglas Social Credit Secretariat
His Social Credit economics book Life and Money: Being a Critical Examination of the Principles and Practice of Orthodox Economics with A Practical Scheme to End the Muddle it has made of our Civilisation, was endorsed by Douglas.
* Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit, by Bob Hesketh, ISBN 0-8020-4148-5
* Clifford Hugh Douglas ' book, Social Credit
In the 1972 federal election he was the Social Credit candidate running against New Democratic Party leader Tommy Douglas in the riding of Nanaimo — Cowichan — The Islands.
Social credit, the brainchild of British engineer C. H. Douglas, purported to bridge the gap between a society's production and its purchasing power ; Aberhart maintained that this gap was the source of Alberta's economic hardships.
C. H. Douglas proved more evasive than Reid had anticipated in evaluating the Aberhart version of social credit. The threat from within apparently defeated, Reid and his government turned their attention to the threat from without: the convention's repudiation had convinced Aberhart that his Social Credit League must run candidates in the next election.
The Canadian social credit movement was a Canadian political movement originally based on the Social Credit theory of Major C. H. Douglas.
The ideology was embraced by the Reverend " Bible Bill " William Aberhart, who formed the Alberta Social Credit League based on Douglas ' ideology and conservative Christian social values.
* Douglas Fallacies: A Critique of Social Credit
After Labour's re-election in 1987, Cullen was made Associate Minister of Finance ( an attempt by Lange to provide an anti-reform counterbalance to the radical Douglas ) and Minister of Social Welfare ( an attempt to limit the impact of the reforms in that area ).
After the First World War, he was influenced by C. H. Douglas and became a supporter of Social credit.
Major C. H. ( Clifford Hugh ) Douglas MIMechE, MIEE ( 20 January 1879 – 29 September 1952 ), was a British engineer and pioneer of the Social Credit economic reform movement.
His ideas inspired the Canadian social credit movement ( which obtained control of Alberta's provincial government in 1935 ), the short-lived Douglas Credit Party in Australia and New Zealand's rather longer-lasting Social Credit Political League.
Douglas also lectured on Social Credit in Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Norway.
* Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit by Bob Hesketh ISBN 0-8020-4148-5
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