Date: April 18, 1919
Context: Coolidge wires Washington trying to mitigate the disruption caused by a telephone strike.
For the duration of the disability of the United States government to furnish telephone service to the New England States do you object to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts taking over the operation until the Federal government can again resume it? Conditions here imperatively demand immediate resumption of telephone service.
Citation: Vermont Historical Society
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