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Back to 1929. Bukharin last week expansively announced that he confessed ''responsibility" for all major crimes mentioned, both those he had known of and those he had not. He compared himself to the chief operator of a telephone switchboard who must accept responsibility for all the operators' "wrong numbers." He then went back to 1929, rehearsed as a confession the gist of his editorials publicly printed then. This seemed greatly to bore the judges. Russian quick-wits at once saw that Bukharin's "confession" of what he called last week the secret program of the conspirators...
...White House switchboard checked up recently, learned that James Roosevelt picked up the telephone 150 times a day. Congressmen who want Administration support for bills, projects, pap, or patronage have learned that the most direct route to the Presidential ear is through Son James, whose long legs carry him across the reception room to his father's office in something less than 30 seconds...
...tribute to William C. Prout, Knights of Columbus brother, who instituted the first K. of C. Meet. Lights were dimmed, and the audience was asked to rise in their seats and stand in silence for a full minute. The silence was prolonged, however, by difficulty with the amplifier switchboard which delayed "The Star Spangled Banner" from starting until well on into the minute...
...wordmongers in general, The Tyranny of Words will to most readers make tonic good sense. But, as with most of Stuart Chase's writing, they are likely to be more impressed with his devastating diagnosis than with his cureall. Picturing present-day human communications as a telephone switchboard with all the wires crossed, Stuart Chase can only look hopefully toward a distant future when, through the rigorous application of semantics, the connection between minds will be quick and clear...
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