Word: switched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward O. Schaaf of Newark, N. J., Hooverite, was misquoted by the Republican National Committee and "in consequence" announced he would switch his vote to Smith. "I am thoroughly disgusted with the behavior of the Republican National Committee," said irate Dr. Schaaf...
...click of a switch super-power "scream amplifiers" came into action, and words conversationally spoken into a microphone on the desk of the President of the Diet resounded through the hall like deafening thunder peals...
Radio Lamp Lighters. Ordinarily street electric lamps are turned on and off in groups, by men throwing switches in scattered control stations in various parts of the community. Those control stations are expensive to maintain. To replace the men and stations Westinghouse developed a radio device, which Boston Edison Co. began to use last week on a circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts...
...minutes later Hooverites who did not switch off their radios after the Beaver Man had finished, were startled, shocked, prodded into indignation by another voice which denounced Candidate Hoover as a "tool of the capitalists...
...long arm in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is a tall gaunt man named Robert G. Elliott, official executioner for those four States. After society had finally decided it must take the lives of Communists Sacco & Vanzetti last summer, it was Executioner Elliott who threw the electric switch. He also killed Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and over 100 less famed criminals. When he took up his profession in 1926 he tried to keep it secret. But his name leaked out after a year. He has been uneasy ever since...