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...hotel, having the time of his life. In shirt sleeves, crinkled trousers, bedroom slippers he worked, read, chatted amid a continual clatter of a dozen typists (two days behind on 600 incoming wires and letters per day), incessant callers, whanging telephones (The Broadmoor had to install a special Willkie switchboard). He left his spacious suite (three rooms and a sun porch) just once a day, to swim at 6 a.m. in The Broad-moor's indoor pool...
...Potomac returned to the Navy Yard dock; the President returned to the White House. Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee shifted to the White House switchboard its private line to Chicago. The President called Jim Farley, extended his good wishes for the convention. "How are things going?" he asked. "Okay," said Jim Farley. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, preparing to leave for Havana, stopped to lunch with the President. Said White House Spokesman Steve Early: "Probably nobody will believe it, but they're going to talk about the Havana Conference...
state of mind as hysteria created by President Roosevelt; after he finished speaking. 150 protesting phone calls jammed the station switchboard; no calls came to support...
...University's connections with the outside world were abruptly severed yesterday morning when the Lehman Hall switchboard faded out for almost an hour between 10 and 11 o'clock...
...French Philosopher Auguste Comte, has been described as "the science of leftovers"-that is, a science which picks up crumbs spilled from the groaning table of the other social sciences.* But it has also been suggested that sociology be enthroned as the basic social science-a sort of central switchboard which would coordinate the others. Today sociologists are concerned with such things as family relations, social organizations, city life, crime. If cultural anthropology has concerned itself largely with the quaint customs of primitive tribes, sociology has concerned itself largely with the quaint customs of civilization...