Word: deadlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's initiative can save the Blue Eagle. The Speaker of the House at Washington and Chairman Daughton have said Roosevelt's wishes will be controlling should he want to induce the House to refuse the Clark resolution. Nevertheless, wise on-lookers at the Capitol believe the Senate will deadlock with the House on any legislation designed to save the NRA. And in all probability the deadlock will extend past June 16, when the Dlue Eagle is officially due to shed its feathers...
Present as the only friend of the accused was Poland's towering knobby-knuckled Foreign Minister Josef Beck who steered Poland into her ten-year non-aggression pact with Germany (TIME, Feb. 3, 1934). Last week the German Press was so hopeful that Poland would deadlock the Council that even when Nazis in the Polish Corridor were mobbed and beaten by irate Poles no newspaper in Germany was allowed to print the fact. At Geneva cool Colonel Beck at the last minute cast Poland's vote with that of all Council members except abstaining Denmark to approve...
...Steel, Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem, Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic, many another steelmaster. Also on hand were Michael F. Tighe of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers and William Green of the American Federation of Labor. They were all at the White House to report a deadlock over steel labor peace. The sticking point: Labor's demand that if a majority in a steel plant voted for the A. F. of L. union, the union should then represent all employes. The President told them to be good boys and try again, ordered the Steel Labor Relations Board...
...HOLY DEADLOCK ? A. P. Herbert ? Doubleday, Doran...
...deadlock had been reached on Monday when it was discovered that on the two subjects under consideration for the debate, Harvard and Oxford coincided in choosing the negative side of one and the affirmative side of the other...