Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story earnest Morris Muster told was a classic example from the handbook of Communist tactics. The first move had come, said he, as soon as the U.F.W.A. was born, in a 1937 merger of A.F.L., C.I.O. and independent unions. Communist-picked switchboard operators and secretaries were slipped in; they became the basis of an efficient espionage system. A sympathetic secretary-treasurer and educational director were maneuvered into office to give Communists access to union finances and membership rolls, control of union newspapers...
Upstairs, hundreds of people had been awakened to horror. Some were called by room telephones-a 44-year-old operator named Mrs. Julia Barry stayed at the switchboard, managed to work a few minutes before she died. But most of the guests were awakened by screams, the smell of smoke, the noise. Almost automatically they opened corridor doors and were driven back by heat and smoke. They ran to their windows, looked down the clifflike side of the building at the silent crowds in the street...
...fruit of his and of the rest of the Paris bureau's labors arrived in Manhattan on schedule for writing and editing. Everything about the report was crystal clear except an explanation of the switchboard in Thorez' regal office. The switchboard was an impressive affair studded with 48 buttons and twinkling red and green lights. LaGuerre, who couldn't take his eyes off of it, asked the leader what it signified. Thorez swore that he never had been able to figure the blamed thing...
Busy Signalman. On Okinawa, Corporal I. Ringham had a wonderful time operating an Army switchboard...
...greyish wife Florence, usually stays at a small, homelike flat on the top floor of the Foreign Office. He is rabidly jealous of his privacy and coldly forbidding toward most reporters. Confided one London correspondent last week: "The only way to get him is to call the Foreign Office switchboard and say in a firm voice: 'The flat, please...