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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a "Mr." and only 34 was Squires in 1914 when he crowned a swift legal career by becoming Minister of Justice of Newfoundland. In 1919 he became Premier and in 1921 he was knighted...
...Newfoundland knew him as a fast and furious organizer, a champion of hydro electric development, a statesman who liked to tear over Newfoundland roads in a high-powered car"like Mussolini...
Brilliant but not unblemished, the career of Sir Richard Anderson Squires, Premier of Newfoundland, took a sharp, sensational downward twist last week. By one of the largest Opposition majorities ever piled up in a Dominion election 74% of Newfoundland's ballot casters voted to oust Squires...
Depression struck the second blow. Unable to borrow money for the Dominion, Premier Squires proposed to sell its greatest possession, Labrador, to Canada for only $100.000,000. Canada turned down the bargain (TIME, Feb. 29). Inevitably Newfoundland's "dole" then had to be reduced. This produced riots. Twice during the past six months Sir Richard Squires has been mobbed and roughly handled (TIME, Feb. 22 & April 18). In alarm the British Admiralty sent a warboat to St. John's, but Newfound landers, again on their best behavior, entertained His Majesty's blue-jackets so hospitably and quietly that they soon...
...election the Liberal Party of Sir Richard & Lady Squires (she has been an M. P. for two years) was opposed by the United Newfoundland Party, founded in 1928. led today by Frederick Charles Alderdice, Newfoundland industrialist born in Belfast, Ireland. 59 years...