Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three men-one little, two big-sat down with grim-faced representatives of 137 Class I railroads and 19 railroad unions. The three were the National Mediation Board, and their problem, in their own words, was the "biggest" the board has ever faced: to arbitrate the three-month-old deadlock between railroad managements' demand for and railroad workers' refusal of a 15% wage...
...common stockholders, who received $3.80 last year, will get $2 in 1938, least since 1921. Meanwhile, final outcome of the big battle for C. & O. waited on the pleasure of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. As the Court reconvened this week, the deadlock was expected to be broken once & for all. But the Court reserved decision-and the generals are still in the trenches...
Conference. Byrnes Committee report was issued at precisely the moment when this recommendation was sure to have maximum effect. House & Senate committees-the latter headed by Senator Pat Harrison, whom Senator Byrnes is supposed to have persuaded to vote for the Reorganization Bill last month-had been deadlocked over the tax bill for a week. Cause of the deadlock: Pat Harrison's Senate Committee was adamant about eliminating the undistributed profits tax entirely, modifying capital gains levies almost out of sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving...
Month ago, when Robert Young asked for the proxies to prepare himself for the Chesapeake meeting, Guaranty refused to give them. Instead it announced that it planned to appoint three "impartial" directors to the Chesapeake board to break the deadlock between Young & Kirby...
...Guaranty Trust Co. was to protect the interests of the bondholders of Alleghany Corp., for whom it is trustee." Reason Guaranty is acting now, though it never did so while the Vans were in power, says Mr. Potter, is because for the first time there is a deadlock in the Chesapeake board, continuance of which might damage C. & O. Also, says Mr. Potter, more than a million in cash dividends of Chesapeake Corp. has piled in the Guaranty's vaults and it wants to release the money...