. Bell telephone magazine . par-ties select their candidates for thehighest elective office in the provisions which the Bell Systemhas made to facilitate the business,and to aid in the dissemination ofnews of every act, of these quadren-nial dramas have twice before beendescribed in these pages.* This convention year the telephone,telegraph, radio, teletypewriter, tele-photography, the press and—for thefirst time—television combined tokeep Mr. and Mrs. America, backhome, virtually as well informedabout what was taking place at theconvention as their duly elected dele-gates who were ac
. Bell telephone magazine . par-ties select their candidates for thehighest elective office in the provisions which the Bell Systemhas made to facilitate the business,and to aid in the dissemination ofnews of every act, of these quadren-nial dramas have twice before beendescribed in these pages.* This convention year the telephone,telegraph, radio, teletypewriter, tele-photography, the press and—for thefirst time—television combined tokeep Mr. and Mrs. America, backhome, virtually as well informedabout what was taking place at theconvention as their duly elected dele-gates who were actually participatingin the ever-changing scene. In theparlance of the news room, it wascoverage to a degree never beforeattained. Inextricably woven intothis gigantic network of electricalcommunication were the many serv- * Communications and the National Con-ventions, by G. K. McCorkle, Quarterly,July, 1932; All America at the Conventions,by G. G. Breed, Quarterly, July, 1936. ] 9 iO Conventions and Communications 177. NEWS IN THE MAKINGA corner of the press stand during the convention ices which the Bell System has devel-oped, and furnishes to meet thewidely varying needs of its customers. Responsibilities of the Job It is a fundamental aim of the BellSystem to provide a service so com-plete that practically any one, any-where, can talk by telephone with anyone else, anywhere in the times during the progress of anational political convention, it wouldseem to a casual observer that every-body in the convention city was try-ing to accomplish that very thing. The job of providing service for aconvention is no overnight, ordinaryrun of the mill assignment for the lo-cal telephone company and the LongLines Department of the A. T. & It is doubtful if any other re-curring event of national importance closely approximates the communica-tion requirements of such an assem-bly, whose deliberations at a criticalmoment may swiftly change as theresult of a telephone ca
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