Word: switches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throwing a Switch. From his first official act in 1921, when he pressed all 15 buzzers on his desk just to see what would happen (15 department heads streamed into his office), Holcombe's political career has never been dull. He lost four mayoralty campaigns, but was always voted back into office after Houston got a good taste of someone else...
...elected during a municipal crisis: the city treasury had run dry. The light company had turned off the street lights and municipal employees were not paid. Holcombe was elected on his pledge to tidy up the city books. Part of his inauguration ceremony was the throwing of a main switch to turn on the street lights again. Houston was soon...
Forced to move, they settled in nearby New Philadelphia. There Mrs. Marsh kept the family together by iron determination and a switch that was put to stinging use whenever any of the boys broke her cardinal rule: "Don't fight among yourselves. You must depend on each other." By mowing lawns, selling papers, and other odd jobs, and paying heed to "Mother," the Marshes made ends meet. In six years Mother Marsh bought a white frame house...
Within a few years he had added two brick companies to the properties. Remembering the lesson of the switch, Alvin took his brothers in as partners, made Mother a sort of chairman of the board. She ran things anyway. When serious disagreements cropped up, Mother Marsh, said one son, would "give us hell and make it hurt as much as one of the lickings we used...
Freshman mentor John Chaffee announced one switch in his attack--Dick Farrington will replace Gene Hill at 175 with the rest of the lineup remaining constant...