Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corps Member of the Month and $15 for outstanding arts-and-crafts work. He encourages esprit-building projects: the trainees are refurbishing several old trolley cars to be operated as tourist attractions in El Paso. Alumni success stories serve as sources of inspiration. After being hired as a switchboard operator, a young woman wrote the center saying "This check will make me the first in my family not to be eligible for food stamps...
...attend an April 1985 state dinner at the White House in honor of the President of Algeria. For the most part, however, the two women talked by phone on weekends, when the Reagans were relaxing at Camp David. Periodically, Quigley would place a collect call to the White House switchboard, and Nancy would scurry to a private room to take it. A White House aide recalls a time when the First Lady was on two phones at once -- Quigley on one line and a presidential scheduler on the other. Quigley says she has met the President once, at the state...
...slap-on-the-wrist penance package infuriated many national Assemblies leaders and church folk in general, who clogged the Springfield switchboard with calls protesting the special treatment. After all, until church law was changed in 1973, a clergyman who made such a confession would have been expelled for two years, though most left for good. Even under today's more lenient rules, it is unprecedented for an Assemblies minister caught in a sex scandal to be barred from the pulpit for less than a year. Headquarters was also perturbed that the Louisiana district had announced its plan publicly rather than...
Blackmun, 78, was a guest at a hotel in Rochester, a switchboard operator said. He did not immediately return messages left at the hotel...
Informing the economist of the decision took a little longer. When tracked down by the White House switchboard, Greenspan was in his Manhattan doctor's office and unreachable for 20 minutes. Commented Reagan, who has seen all too many physicians during his two terms: "There's no telling what they're doing to that man." Eventually Greenspan emerged. Would he accept the job? The immediate answer...