Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that $500,000,000 could be saved by having fewer Federal employes and keeping them on the job, the Congressman was mistaken; that as for the Senate's resolution asking him to enter the negotiations in the anthracite strike, it gave him no authority, did not alter the deadlock, and he saw no more reason for intervening than he had previously...
...President promptly indicated that he did not see that the Senate resolution changed matters a particle, and he would not summon a conference as long as the hopeless deadlock continued...
Both these proposals were rejected by the miners, who made a counter proposal to modify the second offer by providing for a conciliation board without an umpire to fix the wages for 1927-30. The operators rejected this offer on the grounds that without an umpire the Board might deadlock...
...about that he carried in his pocket an order for the dissolution of the Reichstag which bore the signature "Paul von Hindenburg." If the vote of confidence should be defeated, the Chancellor would announce that President von Hindenburg believed that only a general election could terminate the three-cornered deadlock now existing between the various Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment to announce that he had obtained a few minor concessions from the Allies respecting...
That such an apparently hopeless three-cornered deadlock is considered "tolerably workable," arises from the fact that the Socialists have long followed the policy of "benevolent abstention from voting" which last December allowed the Luther-Stresemann minority Government to carry through the Locarno negotiations despite the opposition of the Right...