Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another soldier, Staff Sergeant Robert Raskin did not want to worry the folks back home. So he wrote to his wife in The Bronx that he had a nice safe job: switchboard operator in the Quartermaster Corps...
...Dealers on Capitol Hill were shocked and angry. Had not the President read their memorandum warning him against compromise? The White House switchboard began to buzz with incoming calls. But the President did not answer. Muttered one top New Dealer: "Now we're in one hell of a fix. Roosevelt, by God, has only himself to blame." Finally word went to Texas' New Dealers: Never mind the Stevenson plan; fight for control of the Dallas convention...
...Tips. In Philadelphia's summer heat, Detective Sergeant Clarence Ferguson arrested two bookmakers who were operating a telephone switchboard-in the nude...
...Terre Haute. Dana's red bricked Main Street is two blocks long. The rest of the town is mostly tree-shaded front-yards and frame houses. Dana's news-center is Mrs. Hazel Shepard's house. She is Dana's telephone operator, and the switchboard is in her parlor...
...reporters at the station because his train was ten minutes early. He went straight to the gloomy, gabled Executive Mansion, where he worked until early morning approving and vetoing some of the 900 bills passed by the Legislature. Next day, while messages of congratulation poured in over the Capitol switchboard, he was the very model of the ever-busy executive. He conferred with his cabinet, worked on more bills, held a clemency hearing for three condemned murderers, received a delegation of St. Regis Indians, in full regalia...