Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riot Act. In Brighton, Mass., a wag advertised 15 apartments for rent, in the Brighton Citizen, gave the police-station phone number...
...with a capital X, reached a new high last night as six College students used their phone techniques (strictly from Adam Lazonga) to vie for the dubious honor of dates with three sweet young things who hail from an adjacent college. The setting was the crimson Network's 9 o'clock broadcast of its new program, "Wolf Calls...
Washington Calling. Harry Truman could stand it no longer. The day after he put a temporary gag on Henry Wallace, he called his Secretary of State on the transatlantic phone. The connection was bad. So he walked to the teletype in the White House communications room. In his mind's eye, no doubt, was the pale, birdlike face of Jimmy Byrnes bent over the teletype in the Paris Embassy. Across 3,800 miles the machines and the men began to talk...
...white phone rang on the desk of his Secretary of Commerce. The phone was Henry Wallace's direct line to the White House. Wallace picked it up, listened and raised a startled face. Then he said: "If that is your request, Mr. President, I will gladly resign...
Then the State Department got busy on the newer developments. President Truman was cruising aboard the Williamsburg in southern waters; Secretary of State Byrnes was absent at the Paris treaty conference. Acting Secretary Dean Acheson got on the phone to Byrnes; Byrnes and Truman talked with each other over a transatlantic circuit. Lights burned late in the Hotel Meurice, Paris headquarters of the U.S. delegation. Through a conference session in the Luxembourg Palace, Jimmy Byrnes ignored the speakers, sat scribbling shorthand notes...