Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago a judge heard the news, hastily adjourned a murder trial. In Manhattan, 2,913 telephone calls jammed the New York Times's switchboard. The Los Angeles City Council rose to its feet, solemnly recited the Oath of Allegiance, then learned that it had wasted its breath. All over the U.S., War Manpower Commission offices got calls from war workers, asking if they could quit their jobs now. Coming within two hours of each other, the two flashes gave the U.S. its biggest artificial pickup and letdown since the A.P.'s phony D-day flash last June...
...Sewell Avery refused to budge from his office. But this time, no one summoned GIs to carry Avery bodily out of his office (TIME, May 8). General Byron left Avery at his desk, took for himself an adjoining office. For a day, while Signal Corps experts installed an Army switchboard, the General and his staff used a pay telephone down the hall. To get desk space for his clerks and advisers, the General turned the company auditorium into a big office, and piled its usual equipment-including a piano-on the stage. General Byron's next problem...
...claque, a hardy Italian named Harold Lodovichetti, described himself on his business cards as "Promoter of Enthusiasm." The claque's present leader is a more conservative man, who lives in The Bronx and is known under the varied names of Schultz and Bennett. The Metropolitan switchboard keeps his telephone number on file for such artists as desire his services. And when the Met goes on tour, the resourceful Mr. Schultz-Bennett goes along to raise teams of local applauders...
...late John Barrymore believed there was only one weapon with which a man could successfully fight a woman-his hat. "Grab it," the Great Profile advised, "and run." Last week, confronted by a spreading strike of telephone switchboard operators, the U.S. knew just what he was talking about. For seven days the nation waited to see if the war's most puzzling domestic problem could be settled that simply. The strike's potentialities were paralyzing. But the women who were picketing the telephone companies were the Good Girls of U.S. industry-the heroines who had stuck by their...
...Beach, wife of the novelist, phoned from her Manhattan hotel suite and was greeted by the switchboard operator with a cheery "Hotel Algonquin." Replied Mrs. Beach: ".Yes, I know." Asked the operator, "Is this 1106?" "No, it's 408, and I want to order breakfast." Operator: "There's no room service except Sunday." "Yes, there is: I've . . . had breakfast up here every day-and furthermore it's Sunday." Operator: "Sunday! My God, I'm not supposed to be here...