Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deans' secretaries, are immured in a little basement room of Lehman Hall behind a door stencilled no admittance. They are the official hello girls of Harvard University--the telephone operators of KIR 7600, which since 1934 has been Harvard's number. Forty main truck lines lead into their switchboard and over six hundred local phones are in the system, ranging from Miss Abbott through a multitude of organizations and professors to Zoology Museum. Direct wires tie in the various graduate schools, Western Union, Postal Telegraph, and Radcliffe...
...Morell, Business Manager Durant's girl Friday, each month writes out a $3,500 check for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. But the war, spawning numerous University committees and requiring more rapid dispatch of some professorial confabulation, has already overtaxed the present facilities of the central switchboard. Soon a sixth operator will have to be added...
Next day, Brooklyn's radicals began to picket President Gideonse's home and office, by telephone. Their calls jammed his office switchboard, got him out of bed at home at 2 in the morning. Pickets also sent President Gideonse telegrams, had them delivered in dead of night. Said one, scaring Mrs. Gideonse out of her wits...
Included in the phone book are the numbers which do not connect through the University switchboard. Only graduate students who have asked that their number be printed will be included...
Denied access to Cinecomedian Charles Chaplin, who had returned his manuscript unopened, would-be Cinemauthor Noel Jones, 23, fell upon Chaplin's office switchboard, started taking it apart...