In telecommunication, the term semiautomatic switching system has the following meanings:
- In telephone systems, a switching system in which telephone operators receive call instructions orally from users and complete them by automatic equipment.
- At tape relay intermediate stations, the manual routing or rerouting of taped messages without rekeying them.
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“The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It was obviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)