Word: phones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This merely caused me to be propelled forcibly to the steel mill's private police station. Once there I was confronted with a roomful of rednecked, large-footed gentry. . . . So again I explained my business, produced identification from the Indianapolis police chief and suggested a number of phone calls-at my expense. The captain himself appeared...
...York, May 31--Business got so brisk aboard the U. S. Boggs, communication ship of the Fleet, that the captain had to call a halt on messages to sailors. One girl sent twelve messages to twelve sailors--on different ships, another asked a gob to "Phone at once, Pete's out of town...
Working as free lances, financially insecure, alternating between overwork and underwork, with most of their "free time" spent waiting anxiously for a phone call to notify them of their next assignment, these private or special nurses are willing to reduce their own salary (in New York from about $7 a day to $5) in order to spread employment, have more actual days' work, have a chance to live like other people and rest after eight hours on duty...
Your issue of March 12, p. 11, col. 3, re Sylvester Harris, the Mississippi gentleman of color and his success in negotiating a Federal Land Bank loan as the result of a personal 'phone call to the White House: Do you suppose the same system would work if applicants for Home Owners' Loan Corp. assistance were to invest the necessary amount of toll charge to the same end? Or does it only work in Mississippi? Or with the Land Bank exclusively? Or only with colored people...
...Shoemaker had been arrested for assault. Last April when he was annoyed by the radio of one Theodore Cohen, a neighbor in Washington's Chastleton Hotel, he marched into Neighbor Cohen's room and punched him on the jaw. "I asked him like a gentleman over the phone to stop the racket." explained the Minnesota Congressman. "Then I went up and stopped it myself. But I got a doctor to sew him up." Two months before that Francis Shoemaker had been involved in a newsworthy fracas in Minneapolis. While under the influence of an opiate administered...