Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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hor-ity for providing telephone serv-ice should function at the communitylevel. For necessary coordination,the local operating organizationshead up in 17 regional operatingorganizations, each with its ownBoard of Directors, president, and other officers, and each with the re-sponsibility for rendering telephoneservice in its territory. At the sametime, the regional organizations havemany problems in common, so it isefficient and economical to have cen-tral groups working to help meetthese problems for the benefit of all.Most of the members of the Mon-day morning meetings described ear-lier head groups of this kind. An-other heads the Long Lines Depart-ment, which maintains and operateslong distance telephone facilities in-terconnecting the territories of theregional Companies. And the Presi-dents of the Western Electric Com-pany and Bell Telephone Labora-tories are in charge of organizationswhich likewise serve the common in-terests of all the Companies—in the (Continued on page Ss)
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Cleo F. CraigPresident, A. T. <sf T. Co. Since July of 1951, Mr. Craig has been President of theAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company. His Bell Sys-tem career, beginning in 1913, illustrates how broad may be amans experience within the corporate confines of one or twocompanies. For his assignments in the Long Lines Departmenttook him from St. Louis to Kansas City and Atlanta en routeto New York, and to such diverse posts as district plant chief,plant accountant, and construction supervisor, among others—with a six-year interval as a special representative in the A. T.& T. General Department—before he became General Man-ager of Long Lines in 1933. He was elected Vice Presidentin charge of the Long Lines Department in 1940, and the fol-lowing year moved to A. T. & T. headquarters. There hisvice-presidental responsibilities included, in turn, charge of theDepartments concerned with Personnel Relations, Operationand Engineering, and Finance and Revenue Requirements. 77 K

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