Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without warning blood was spilled at Aux Cayes, south coast coffee port. Fifteen hundred natives marched to the town out of the wild back country to join the strike. They were met by a detachment of 20 Marines who told them the strike was over, warned them to disperse. Instead, the Haitians, armed only with machetes, clubs, field tools, attempted to rush the town. The Marines volleyed over the mob's head, then scattered them with 250 rounds of direct fire. Five Haitians were killed, 20 wounded. One Marine was bitten in the hand...
...present series, the first picture was made among the interesting Berber peoples in Northern Africa. Going abroad, Haeseler met Captain M.W. Hilton-Simpson who was on the point of starting out on an expedition into the Aures Massifs in the north of Africa...
Taken with these ideas in mind the film met with such success that Haeseler was encouraged to go on with this type of picture. On the same trip in Africa he had filmed the Nomad Bedouins who live in the Sahara. After the completion of this picture he went to Central Europe where he produced the film. "Mediaeval Moderns", the principal film in the Foundation's exhibition Tuesday...
...around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before an examination; unless a man is willing to get, this sort of instruction earlier than the last minute, he must be content with professional cramming instead of guidance from students who have recently met and coped with his problems...
...visited by eligible voters. The extension of time for balloting is quite as important. The afternoon hours are best adapted to Mallinckrodt and Widener, the morning to the others. Voting on two successive flays is a workable solution of this problem. The necessity for more supervisors can easily be met by increasing the membership of the Junior Polls Committees; and the result can hardly, fall to be a substantial enlargement of the total vote cast...