Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...additional salary. The original band of 700 strikers has grown to a body of 4,000 or 5,000 unwilling performers. Theatre owners stand by their original compromise-offer of a 5% increase in salaries, which would bring them up to from $60 to $90 per week. If the deadlock continues, Sept. 1st will find our eastern playhouses deprived of the dulcet rustle of violins as the lovers dally in the garden, and of the eerie wail of the clarinet as the butler hides the revolver in the sideboard...
...midst of the Democratic Convention's deadlock at the end of June, the Times again cried out in the wilderness...
...Republican Party, the party of progressive conservatism- under the leadership of President Coolidge, has taken its stand firmly upon the Constitution of the United States, and all know where it stands. Opposed to it, and in reality its chief opponent, though the result of the effort may be to deadlock the contest for the Presidency and make Bryanism succeed the Coolidge policy, is a movement of untried and dangerous radicalism...
...deadlock, which the delegates to the Premiers' Conference in London managed to keep dead and locked for a considerable time, was at length vivified and unlocked: full agreement was reached by the Conference on all points on the program for operating the Experts' Reparations Plan...
...lessened the tension somewhat by announcing that the U. S. would approve of an American sitting on the Reparations Commission on Aug. 15. He also took occasion to deprecate the emphasis placed by the French press upon the attitude of American bankers towards security for the German loan. The deadlock on this point, however, remained tight as ever. The conferees adjourned for 24 hours...