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Members of the Chamber of Deputies were loud in shouting, last week, that no sufficient reason existed. Mme. Montard had simply chanced to be employed as local switchboard operator for the Royalist newspaper L'Action Française when its staff decided to get their editor, M. Leon Daudet, out of prison by mimicking the voice of a high official and ordering his relaese (TIME, July 4). Mme. Montard, by handling these hoax calls, became, in the eyes of the police, a conspirator. She was arrested, led into the grey depths of La Prison Sant?...
...only will Swedish switchboard girls continue to give out the time, but for a charge of 10 ore (2½c), they will perform the following new types of super-service...
...lances of the picador, careened madly about the ring. With graceful, measured step the matador advanced, rose on tiptoe, plunged his sword into the bull's breast, squarely between the shoulders. A bell rang. That bell was inside the bull. That bull was mechanical, controlled by an electric switchboard. Sportsmen were having their bi-weekly fun in a building on the banks of the grimy Passaic River...
Hamilton's son, Hamilton, became captain of the Harvard football eleven which lost to Yale 8-0. But it took this Fish only three years to graduate cum laude. He has been in Congress for three terms and is not yet 40, His family is like a switchboard through which his mind can plug in quickly to any period in U. S. history. His family has dealt with Latin-American countries before. His grandfather once brought peace to four of them. If Hamilton Fish Jr. predicts conquest of Mexico, it is not the boasting of an upstart though...
...Somerville, dynamic Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor, with a high decisive voice and little hands, made his opening address. While he spoke, a giant telegraph switchboard with 120 "positions" distributed his words to various newspapers; more telegraph wires than have been used for any news event* except the Tunney-Dempsey fight, crackled into action. The front page of the New York Mirror was covered with a picture of Mr. Mills kneeling in sad prayerful pose beside the open grave of his wife. The New York Times wrote about the trial as spaciously as if it were a polar exploration...