Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black Republic of Haiti last week cast a shadow of concern over the White House. Prompted by bloody disorders there, President Hoover sent out of his office two despatches: 1) an order to the Navy to reinforce U. S. troops already on duty in Haiti; 2) a special message to Congress. In this message the President said...
...Album Committee of five members was chosen in the order given as follows: Robert Edward Barrett Jr., of Holyoke; Edward Trumbull Batchelder, of Salem; Reginald Henry Phelps, of Southwick; Freeman Lewis, of St. Cloud, Minnesota; William McKee Dunn of Detroit, Michigan...
...order to prepare the way for the filming of the people, it was decided to have Captain Hilton-Simpson and his wife precede Haeseler and acquaint, with the new camera, the friends which the explorers had made on previous contacts with the natives. Up to this time the Berbers had only seen the ordinary still camera and no movies had ever been taken of them...
...other primitive peoples was found in handling the great numbers of spectators who gathered. The operator had to be on the alert for moving shadows on the camera's field of vision. Among people less stolid than the Berbers, the forming of an audience had to be prevented in order to help the subjects overcome their feeling of self-consciousness...
...benefit of the camera. To take continuous pictures of the daily occupations of the subjects under study would have been a matter of the greatest expense. A knowledge of the subject was necessary so that the operator might know when to start and stop the camera in order to cut down the waste of film to a minimum and yet get all the essentials...