Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Arzner is short, stocky, with a quiet executive manner, a boyish bob and an interest in medicine and sunsets. She graduated from Westlake School, a semi-fashionable Los Angeles seminary for girls, into a job on the switchboard for a wholesale coffee house. A friend got her a $3 raise and a place in the Paramount stenographic department. She became a script girl for Nazimova, did so well that she was pro moted to the cutting room - a department then generally staffed exclusively...
...world with more than 100,000 subscribers which does not have radio-telephone communication with the U. S.* From an A. T. & T. radio station at Dixon, Calif, calls will go direct from the U. S. to Shanghai removing the previous necessity of routing them through Japan. Switchboard work at the U. S. end will be done in the company's Chinatown office in San Francisco...
This strange young man first distinguished himself from his 434 colleagues on the tail end of last New Year's Eve. Entering a Washington apartment house, he shouldered the Negro switchboard operator aside, merrily plugged in every telephone in the building. Four husky policemen testified in court that Representative Zioncheck was so drunk that they had had to support him when they removed him from the building. Convicted of drunken & disorderly conduct, he took a copy of the court proceedings to the House, asked unanimous consent to have them printed in the Congressional Record. "I think," declared the indignant...
...these details Britain's Press has wallowed for weeks. In the dirty, smoky Manchester Assizes a special telephone switchboard was set up with private circuits constantly open to the great organs of the a London Press - "just like in America." In his summing up Justice Singleton told the jury that the Crown had built up and fitted together "the strongest case possible on circumstantial evidence." The verdict of guilty was a blow to Britain's outstanding criminal lawyer, Norman Birkett, K.C. Finally, the wretch found guilty in "Britain's Goriest Murder Case" was a particularly good example...
...Quai d'Orsay switchboard operator was told to get Stanley Baldwin on the telephone. She reported that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was not to be reached by telephone even on the joint request of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the President of the Council of Ministers of France. There was nothing unusual in this. Mr. Baldwin often refuses to use the telephone. Instinct and experience warned him that he would be better able to make up his mind as to the justice and wisdom of dismembering Ethiopia after...