Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, he was barred from overseas combat command in World War I by Secretary Baker and the A.E.F. commander, John J. Pershing. Wood's views had won him wide popularity, however, and in 1920 he was the favorite to get the Republican nomination. But in a convention deadlock, a group of men in a smoke-filled room brought forth Warren G. Harding instead. Wood retired in 1921, became Governor General of the Philippines...
This bitter dispute about dates was the latest symptom of the Assembly's deadlock over the issue of electoral reform. Most Deputies agree that the present system of proportional-representation voting must be changed before the next election. The antianticipationistes feel that the Assembly, which has fruitlessly debated the question on & off since last October, will be unable to find a workable substitute in time for elections in June...
...last week, the U.S. dared to hope that there might be a way to end the deadlock in Korea, put an end to the fighting which was costing so much, gaining so little. Douglas MacArthur, flying to the Korean front again, had made a proposition to the enemy...
...been bilking them for years under the old rates. The Majlis refused to ratify the agreement with Anglo-Iranian, and payments to Iran, earmarked to finance a desperately needed development plan, were held up. Although the British government owns 52.55% of Anglo-Iranian voting stock, it let the deadlock between Fraser and the Iranian government continue, as if nothing more were involved than commercial haggling over price. Nor did the U.S. make any serious attempt to break the deadlock, even after the development plan, drawn up by top U.S. engineering companies, had to be abandoned because Iran's government...
...political program for the new socialism relies upon the sensitive functioning of democratic institutions. In specific recommendations for the popular election of the President, an easier method of Constitutional amendment, and mechanism for direct appeal to the people in the case of deadlock between the President and Congress we recognize the true significance of Norman Thomas and the American Socialist movement...