Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...than by their failure to beat the Athletics in the last world series. In Shibe Park in Philadelphia?home of Connie Mack's Athletics, who had been sure of the American League pennant for many weeks?electricians were getting ready for the world series by installing the telegraph master- switchboard that was used in the Hall-Mills murder trial (TIME...
...establishment's best paying customers. On Your Back might have been much better. It is not tightly constructed: often important sequences are skimped and irrelevant ones emphasized, but in spite of its faults it is superior to the average program film. Best shot: a blonde switchboard operator going through a few moments of her day's routine...
Zionism gave the long distance telephone operators at Chatham, Mass., an unusual amount of switchboard plugging last week. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis of the U. S. Supreme Court had just established himself in his summer home there, on the eve of the Zionist Organization of America's convention in Cleveland. The delegates at Cleveland were pondering and discussing his offer to return to active Zionism with his cohorts if the current regime headed by Louis Lipsky were ousted (TIME, July...
...Long Island City, N. Y., James Hughes, porter in a telephone building, took Miss Barbara Westlake and Mrs. Stephanie Werner, switchboard operators, up in an elevator, stopped it above the third floor, turned around and tried to buss Mrs. Werner. Miss Westlake became hysterical, Mrs. Werner jumped out of the elevator, fell down the shaft, died...
Said one girl with a happy smile: "There are no ill mannered-men in the [switchboard] room to annoy us. It is only the electricians or the mechanics who come into the room once in a while, but they are all nice...