Word: deadlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forearmed itself against such an emergency. In its pending trade code it had refused to dally with its labor policy and had carefully detailed plans for company unions. Employes might bargain collectively-but only by electing their own representatives "on the premises of the employer." In case of a deadlock with the management the head of the company was to render "a final decision that shall be just and fair." These labor provisions drew the A. F. of L.'s angry protest for, if approved, they would balk its unionization campaign at the outset. Last week Steel and Labor...
...achieved. The gold countries will not consider a, devaluation of their currencies or an inflationary policy. The British Government are unable to take a decisive position. . . . To safeguard his [domestic] program the President has wisely rejected all proposals which would interfere with it. He has not been afraid to deadlock the Conference. Why should he be afraid to propose that it adjourn...
...meet was in the nature of an upset, an upset for the expectation of the press which backed the home team to win things easily on Soldier's Field. For it was only in the last two events that the strong English invasion was turned back, and a deadlock achieved in the number of first places scored, six for each side. But Harvard and Yale men had the majority of second-places, nine to three, and it was by virtue of these humble victories that the meet...
Twenty-one days of trial, 590,000 words of testimony and 14 hours of deliberation by the jury ended in a deadlock. Neither side was able to produce absolute evidence to prove that either Mme Halm's or the Louvre's Belle was from the brush of Leonardo. Sir Joseph was technically exonerated, but the trial did his reputation no good. An appeal was started, suddenly dropped. Two rumors persisted: 1) that Sir Joseph Duveen had bought Mme Hahn off; 2) that the suggestions of Sir Joseph's business methods when faced by an important art sale...
President Hoover's soft-voiced pleas to purge the pension rolls fell on deaf ears at the Capitol. Special Congressional committees investigated only to report disagreement and deadlock. The National Economy League took the field in response to widespread sentiment against nonmilitary disability allowances. But the thumbscrew tactics of the veterans' lobbies blocked all legislative action...