Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman would not allow himself to be drafted unless there was a thoroughly hopeless deadlock that could not be broken by a draft of Stevenson...
Senator Robert Kerr has had some quiet success in rounding up delegates since his Nebraska licking at the hands of Estes Kefauver (TIME, April 14). Stevenson's candidacy could stop Kerr cold, but in the event of a long deadlock some delegations might drift to him. Kerr regards himself as the "least unacceptable" candidate to a majority of the delegates...
...from "higher up." In Washington the Pentagon was quick to point out that the U.N. has still not struck beyond the Yalu, but is getting weary of the futility of its own self-imposed restraint. "We now realize," said a Pentagon officer, "that the best chance of breaking the deadlock at Panmunjom is to hit the enemy with the force at our command...
There is a lot of love among the Democrats-there has to be to cement such a collection of reformers, big-city bosses, labor leaders and Southern conservatives. If the party's national convention goes into a long deadlock over Kefauver, Harriman and Russell, the delegates may turn to Barkley, who is loved by all factions. Or they may turn to House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, who is respected by all factions...
...Workers International Union, Orie Albert ("Jack") Knight, 49, began pleading for unity last fall, soon smoothed over the jealousies and jurisdictional rivalries that had kept the oil unions apart. He is still moving slowly; much of the industry remains to be organized. But as he presided over the deadlock at his Denver headquarters last week, Jack Knight plainly looked like a man hopefully trying on the crown and testing the strength of a new labor kingdom...