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Word: deadlocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hours. The expectantly awaited informal miner-owner conference (TIME, June 14) assembled in London last week. In 3½ hours it reached a state of complete deadlock on all points, adjourned amid recriminations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Coal Strike Keynotes | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...Deadlock. It soon became apparent that Premier Baldwin faced a titan's task in attempting to mediate between the Coal Miners' Federation and the Coal Owners' Mining Association, both of which seemed disposed to bargain for terms more favorable to themselves than those embodied by the Baldwin Government in its post-"general strike" proposal* for settling the coal strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Coal Strike Continues | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...Premier, he continued at the mercy of this same irresolute Left majority, which recently overturned his Cabinet (TIME, March 15) because it did not like his financial policy, yet besought him to form another Cabinet, next day, since no one else could do so. Returning from the World deadlock at Geneva to his own National stalemate, the exhausted Aristide told pressmen wearily that there was little to choose between the two. Then he smiled (no one knew why) and metaphorically plunged like a cheerful old walrus into the fearful welter of Chamber debate. Throughout the remainder of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Briand's Week | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...bitterness which has characterized the Passaic textile strike almost fiared up into a riot yesterday, when the police arrested three picketers. Arbitrary methods rarely bring peace, and such officiousness as this will do little to settle a deadlock which has already assumed significant proportions. For the Passaic strike is something more than one of the sporadic outbursts for which the textile industry is noted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEXTILE TROUBLES | 3/17/1926 | See Source »

...away, Germany's delegates waited, not in hopes and dreams, but pondering what they knew would be two causes to delay translation of the words of Locarno into action: 1) political upheavals in France which robbed the French delegate temporarily of his right to vote; 2) deadlock over the creation in the Council of seats for Brazil and Spain. They refused to commit Germany to any policy to be pursued once she should be admitted to the League. They waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Travel, Trouble | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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