Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insurgency" he is not regarded as a serious contender. On the outskirts will hang several favorite sons, such as ex-Governor Lowden of Illinois, Senator Watson of Indiana and Judge Kenyon of Iowa, eager to step forward if the Coolidge forces should slip or fall into a deadlock with Senator Johnson-but not otherwise likely to be active...
Senator Bruce explained: "I changed my vote from Senator Smith to Senator Cummins simply because it seemed to me that the Democratic members of the Senate had arrived at a point in the deadlock at which they were merely playing into the hands of the La Follette Magnus Johnson Brookhart radical element. ... I decided that the inevitable split between the conservative and radical members of the Senate had come, and that it was time for me to obey my profoundest instincts and convictions and to part company for a time with other Democratic Senators. ... As far as I am concerned...
...time has the movement shown itself so inconsistent as during the first month of the present Congress. In the House it protested violently against the dominance of committee rule, and was quieted only by promises and compromises. At present it has brought the Senate to a deadlock, which threatens to last the holidays, over the question of chairmanship of a committee--an office which this week it considers of sufficient importance to fight...
...guessed that the insurgents will adopt obstructionist tactics of this kind; that after a deadlock has continued, possibly for several days, the regular Republicans will make certain concessions on important committee memberships; that then probably Mr. Gillett will be elected. The compromises may be made with the insurgents or with Democrats, or both. The Democrats want the Republicans to have the Speakership, and, for due concessions, enough Democrats might leave the floor to give the regular Republicans a majority...
...visitors scored first, soon after the start of the game on Richie's easy shot, and 15 minutes later the Crimson tied the score with a shot following long passes from Dorman to Wright to Lamont. For 30 minutes of the second half the teams battled to a deadlock, but then in a Haverford rally Rhodes broke the tie for the visitors and Richie clinched the game 10 minutes later with a clever shot after a long...