Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also in a measure diverted attention from the fact that you yourself are a potential candidate . . . from the equally evident fact that your championship of this particular issue puts you on a favorable position to have its organized friends . . . stampede the convention to you in the event of a deadlock...
There King Alexander I, spruce, compelling, received Statesman Velja Vukitchevitch. Together these good friends had just broken the long deadlock among Jugoslav political blocs (TIME, Feb. 20) which had seemed to defy the possibility that a cabinet-any cabinet-could be formed. The wily Vukitchevitch by hook & by crook and King Alexander by imperative royal command had again induced the Jugoslav "national minorities" to enter a coalition headed by the "Radical" (reactionary) Vukitchevitch, now the chief bulwark of the Throne...
Vote counting after the Japanese general election, last week, revealed at first glance only a disheartening deadlock between the two chief parties. Upon closer inspection a healthy trend was observed, away from the multiple bloc system which has been the curse of Japanese politics, and toward a two-party line...
Opening under every kind of auspicious omen, with the beneficent visits of the silent man of Washington and the Lone Eagle hardly a month away, the Sixth Pan-American Congress at Havana has so far discussed two points of importance in the western hemisphere, and has reached a deadlock on both points. The Pan-American method of settling such deadlocks amicably for both sides is a happy one. The matter is first threshed out around the conference table. After two, sometimes three days of eulogy, defamation and near duelling, the matter is put into the hands of a sub-committee...
...efficient because the governing functions are not torn every four years by the dissensions of campaigning. The existence of the two methods in this country is disquieting, especially so because the majority in Congress is at present opposed to the President. Since little can be accomplished with such a deadlock, the insurgents are perhaps justified in siding with the Democrats in an effort to prevent Mr. Coolidge's re-election. But the means they have taken create a precedent that carries Congress still further from the unbiased ways of judicious legislation, and the people, still further from the power...