Word: newfoundlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American was also making news last fortnight far in the North. It announced that its summer service from Boston to Halifax would this year be extended, if mail contracts are forthcoming, to turbulent St. Johns, Newfoundland. Cooperating with Transamerican Airlines Corp. (operating between Cleveland and Chicago), Pan American will push surveys and preliminary research this summer in a drive to span the Atlantic by way of Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroes and Shetland Islands to England and the Continent. Last summer Pilot Parker Cramer was drowned in the Atlantic as he was completing an experimental flight over this route...
During his long career Professor Thaxter has been associated with botanical and entomological expeditions to Newfoundland, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Jamaica, Florida, and many countries in South America and Europe...
Paving stones whistled. Brickbats flew. As throwers improved their aim, window after window of the Colonial Building splintered into tinkling bits. Lady Squires, the Premier's wife and Newfoundland's only female Parliament member, was deeply gashed, was led bleeding from the hall. The mob burst in through the Strangers' Gallery, seized all entrances and set up shouts of "Squires! Squires! Hang him! Throw him in the harbor! Where's Squires...
...rioters fell back, up jumped Father Pippy. Premier Squires, rising badly bruised from the bottom of the heap, was rushed to a secret cellar, disappeared from the Newfoundland scene for 24 hours. The mob, though they had let their quarry escape, made a thorough job of smashing all the Colonial Building windows, battering doors and desks to splinters and scattering State papers by the armful in the street. Solemn, impassioned promises by highly respected citizens that Premier Sir Richard Squires would positively resign or call a Newfoundland election within 48 hours finally got the smashers out of the building...
Patriotic Newfoundlanders flayed "foreign correspondents" for having cabled "exaggerated reports." But there had undoubtedly been "certain occurrences." In London the Tory Evening Standard, close to the British Admiralty, announced that a British warship had been ordered to St. John's. Newfoundland War veterans, who pitched in and helped the St. John's police restore order, were publicly thanked in the King's name...