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  Encyclopedia: Richard Squires
Sir Richard Anderson Squires (January 18, 1880-March 26, 1940) was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919-1923 and from 1928-1932.
Squires was born in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland in 1880.
Squires was arrested and later released on bond.
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 Richard Squires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Squires government was accused of using bribes to win the 1923 General Election.
In 1932, Squires' finance minister, Peter John Cashin, resigned from the executive council accusing his fellow cabinet ministers of widespread corruption and Squires himself of having falsified council minutes to hid the fact that he had been receiving secret payments out of public funds.
Squires had little choice but to dissolve his government and call an election the result of which was the defeat of the Liberal government and the loss of Squires' own seat.
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 Richard Squires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richard Squires (1880 - 1940) wasthe Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919 - 1923 and from 1928 - 1932.
Squires was born in HarbourGrace, Newfoundland in 1880.
Squires had little choice but to dissolve his government and call an election the result of which was the defeat of theLiberal government and the loss of Squires' own seat.
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 Richard Squires (1880-1940), n.d.: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richard Squires (1880-1940), n.d.: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
Squires' first government collapsed in 1923 after accusations of the theft of public monies.
From Richard Hibbs, ed., Who's Who in and From Newfoundland 1930, 2nd ed.
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 Richard Squires -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sir Richard Anderson Squires (January 18, 1880-March 26, 1940) was the (The person who holds the position of head of state in England) Prime Minister of (An island in the north Atlantic) Newfoundland from 1919-1923 and from 1928-1932.
Squires was born in Harbour Grace, (An island in the north Atlantic) Newfoundland in 1880.
Squires had little choice but to dissolve his government and call an election the result of which was the defeat of the Liberal government and the loss of Squires' own (Any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit)) seat.
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 Frederick C. Alderdice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John's businessman, Alderdice was appointed to the Newfoundland Legislative Council (the Upper House of the legislature) in 1924 and became leader of the Liberal-Conservative Progressive Party and the dominion's Prime Minister when his cousin Walter Stanley Monroe retired from the post in 1928.
The Great Depression embroiled the dominion in a severe economic crisis which was compounded by corruption in the Squires government taking the dominion to the brink of bankruptcy.
The Squires government collapsed and Alderdice swept to power in the ensuing June election on the promise that if elected, his government would examine the possibility of suspending the constitution and having a commission administer the country until conditions improved.
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 Richard Squires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richard Squires (1880 - 1940) was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919 - 1923 and from 1928 - 1932.
Widespread unemployment caused by the Great Depression and allegations of corruption against Squires and his government along the government's inability to deal with the crisis created widespread discontent and political instability.
Squires had little choice but to dissolve government and call an election the result which was the defeat of the Liberal and the loss of Squires' own seat.
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 Station Information - Richard Squires
Squires won the election of 1919 over Sir Micheal Cashin of the Liberal Progressive Party.
Squires remained in the House of Assembly, as a independent member.
His next administation started out will, seeing the election of his wife Helena Squires as the first woman to sit in the House of Assembly.
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 Collapse of Responsible Government, 1924-1934: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Prime Minister Richard Squires' government collapsed in 1923 after accusations of the theft of public monies.
His report convinced many citizens that politicians were indeed corrupt, and strengthened the case of those who argued that partisan politicians were to blame for government indebtedness and alleged waste.
Squires' second government was again infected by corruption, and his finance minister Peter Cashin resigned in 1932.
www.heritage.nf.ca /law/collapse_responsible_gov.html   (1647 words)

  
 Newfoundland and Labrador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1923, Prime Minister Sir Richard Squires was arrested on charges of corruption.
Squires returned to power in 1928 due to the unpopularity of his predecessors, the pro-business Walter Stanley Monroe and (briefly) Frederick C. Alderdice (Monroe's cousin), but found himself governing a country suffering from the Great Depression.
Squires lost the election that was held subsequently.
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 Warren, William Robertson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He became the sixteenth prime minister of Newfoundland, July 1923-Apr 1924, upon the resignation of Richard SQUIRES.
A barrister in St John's at age 21, he was a Liberal member of the Assembly by 1903, Speaker 1909-13 and Squires's minister of justice from 1919.
Squires resigned and the party chose Warren as leader and prime minister.
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 VC Symposium 2001 - presenters
Richard Squires graduated from Bristol veterinary school in 1982.
In 1990 Richard returned to the United States where he worked for six years as an Assistant Professor of Small Animal Medicine, first at the University of Pennsylvania and later at the University of Wisconsin.
Richard is a Diplomate of the American and European Colleges of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
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 Celebrate Memorial: History: Biography of Sir Richard Squires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richard Anderson Squires is the Newfoundland prime minister whose name seems to be most readily recalled when the history of Responsible Government is discussed.
In the five years between, Squires did not have a seat in the House of Assembly and remained a shadowy political figure.
Squires, who was knighted in 1921 and was to be one of the very few Newfoundland prime ministers to be named to the King's Privy Council, was a brilliant man in many ways but highly mercurial in temperament.
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 Sir Richard Squires Memorial Park
Sir Richard Squires Memorial Park was established in 1954 as the first Provincial Park in Newfoundland.
The park is named in honour of Sir Richard Squires the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919 to 1923 and 1928 to 1932.
During his first term in office, Squires successfully arranged the construction of a paper mill in Corner Brook.
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 Publications of Dr. Richard L. Squires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Squires, R. L., 1992, New morphologic and geographic data on the neritid gastropod Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata Gabb, 1869 from the Eocene of the Pacific coast of North America.
Squires, R. L., 1995, The gastropod Philine bisculptata Hanna, 1927, from the Eocene of southern California belongs in the neritid genus Otostoma d'Archiac, 1859.
Squires, R. L., and R. Demetrion, 1995, A new genus of cassiduloid echinoid from the lower Eocene of the Pacific coast of western North America and a new report of Cassidulus ellipticus Kew, 1920, from the lower Eocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
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 Richard Squires - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richard Squires was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919-1923 and from 1928-1932.
The Attorny General William Warren issued an arrest warrent for Squires.
Alderdice who was still leader of the opposition came to power and want about putting into place Commission of Government.
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 The Champions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richard goes to Wales and meets with journalist Frank Nicholls.  Frank tells Richard that the body he saw, was a General Patterson and that he thinks they are freezing him so that he can be brought back to life.
Richard questions her and finds out a man called Squires is running the program, and the reason why Inge (the scientist) is working for him is, because Squires is holding her father captive.
Richard is  caught and meant to be drugged but Inge swaps the drug  for water.Craig and Sharron arrive at the pub inn, where Richard was staying, and finds out where Richard is. Richard is placed in a cryogenic freezer.
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 Newfoundland biographies - Q-Z - Newfoundland History
Squires, Sir Richard Anderson (1880-1940), lawyer and statesman, was born at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, on January 18, 1880, the son of Alexander Squires and Sidney Anderson.
In 1925, Squires was fined for income tax evasion.] He was Prime Minister again from 1928 to 1932, [a time when with the onset of the Great Depression, in 1929, the financial problems of Newfoundland took a turn for the worse.
The most important impact of the Squires' scandals was to bring politicians into disrepute in Newfoundland and to render the suspension of democratic rule under Commission of Government more acceptable than otherwise it would have been.
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 William Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Warren was first elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly in 1903 as a Liberal and served as Speaker of the House from 1909-1913.
In 1919 he became minister of justice in the Cabinet of Sir Richard Squires.
The Squires government became embroiled in a scandal over allegations of corruption and misspending of government funds and Squires resigned in protest along with three other ministers in 1923.
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 ENL:7954 Squires, Richard Anderson
The Newfoundland Jubilee Scholar for 1898, Squires graduated from Dalhousie law school and in 1902 was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court and joined the legal firm of Edward P. Morris (who was Minister of Justice and Attorney General in the government of Robert Bond).
Squires was invited to be a member of the new administration but declined, indicating, among other reasons, that he wanted no part of a government that was apparently unduly influenced by the Reid Newfoundland Company qv.
Squires made contact with Bond and reported that Bond had advised him that the party needed to be revitalized by younger men, a decision Squires communicated to a number of leading citizens and Liberal supporters.
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 3. Newfoundland. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Elections (Nov. 1) resulted in the overthrow of the Cashin ministry, and Sir Richard A. Squires became premier.
Grave charges of misappropriation of funds brought against Sir Richard Squires and others (later acquitted) by Premier Warren.
Warren was defeated in the assembly following the arrest of Squires (April 22, 1924), and he resigned.
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CITIZENS Richard Squires received a letter from the town that stated he was in violation of town ordinances.
Joe Krawczyk was invited by Richard to look at his property and Joe felt that if Richard removed the bed in the front of his house, moved the lawn swing, and other items listed he would probably be in compliance.
Richard had removed some of the items listed but didn't feel he could get it all done before the deadline.
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 Richard Squires - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Richard Squires - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 1924Newfoundland
Squires made a public statement to the effect that the findings were "absolutely contrary to the weight of evidence", and that he would seek an early opportunity of demonstrating that fact by legal process.
R. Warren announced on Apr. 8 that prosecutions would follow the findings of the Commissioner and that, meanwhile, a thorough house-cleaning of the Government Departments would be undertaken.
Richard Campbell, former Minister of Agriculture, and John T. Meaney, ex-Controller of Liquor, were arrested on Apr. 22, and released on heavy bail.
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 Helena Emiline Strong (#000075)
Richard Anderson Squires was born in Harbour Grace and died in St. John's.
Sir Richard Squires was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland (1919-1923, and 1928-1932), before it became a Province of Canada.
Sir Richard Squires, KCMG, was knighted in 1921.
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