Word: deadlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruce, tireless head of the Public Works Art Project and himself a painter of some note, wanted realism. Stormed he: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into that building!" Aligned with Mr. Bruce and helping to create a deadlock was Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Silliman Evans. Being put in position last week in the Bepartment of Agriculture was just the kind of mural to which Artist Bruce strenuously objected. It was a 40-by-13 ft. canvas by Gilbert White and distinctly suggestive of ladies in cheesecloth. Taking...
...will then decide whether or not the representatives of the laborers were chosen by accredited employees. Thus, these names will not be revealed directly to the employers and the danger of discrimination against members of labor organizations will be minimized. It is hoped that this arrangement will break the deadlock which has existed up to now and lead to a satisfactory agreement between the employers and the labor representatives accredited by the neutral board...
Washington, March 25--President Roosevelt conferred today with Federal Railroad-Coordinator Joseph B. East- man on the deadlock in negotiations between the roads and their organized workers over wages...
Although most of the Washington dispatches are voluble in their assurance that a firm administration policy will break the deadlock between the collective bargainers and industry. Name of them suggest just what that policy might be. The retreads, for instance, refuse to continue on any terms but then ten per cent reduction of contrast upon which the administration had agreed, while the railroad workers refuse to continue unless this temporary reduction is removed...
...prove that students are not satisfied with anything below 90 proof, show that Rye whiskey, Gin, Rum and Brandy follow in that order on the preferred list. Running a poor second to Scotch, Rye has tallied a score of 35, while Gin and Rum find themselves in a deadlock for third with 19 votes apiece. Leading the list of favorite brands of Rye, "Shady Oak," and Hiram Walker's "Canadian Club" are fighting it out for top honors with "Guggenheim" and "G & W". "Felton's" and "Bacardi" always favorite brands of Rum have not lost their supremacy in this field...