HIGH FINANCE: Social Credit in Buffalo

In the days of Technocracy, a retired Scottish engineer named Major Clifton Hugh Douglas, having long sensed a bankers' plot to keep buying power out of motion, brought his Social Credit movement to North America. Its theory—that the State should credit "National Dividends" to its citizens to increase their buying power—was intriguing enough to carry Alberta's provincial election in 1935. Fortnight ago in Buffalo, N. Y., a practical reformer launched a version of Social Credit that would have sent Major Douglas staggering to a neutral corner.

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