Word: deadlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This office, empty since Charles Henry Tuttle resigned in September to make his vain race as New York's Republican nominee for Governor, has caused President Hoover much political tribulation. His personal friends urged one candidate while professional Republican politicians urged another for the appointment. Last week the deadlock was broken when the Hoover candidate withdrew and the President, with the goodwill of all sides, appointed a third man as U. S. District Attorney. He was plump, pink, bald, middle-aged George Zerden Medalie, who has a soft, husky voice and gentle brown eyes. Behind District Attorney Medalie...
Thus had White House pressure and the cry of Hard Times broken the decade-long deadlock on eastern mergers. For the last ten years these same rail executives had been fighting a stockmarket battle for possession of subsidiary roads as part of their trunk systems, had been snatching at all independent trackage in the country's rail territory to keep it out of their rival's hands. So bitter and reckless had become their operations that the Interstate Commerce Commission had cried out in loud protest while the Senate had passed a resolution to suspend temporarily all mergers...
...should "confine itself to a minimum of interference" with the water power industry and leave regulation to the States. Prof. Guido Hugo Marx of Stanford University promptly flayed him for non-feasance of duty. Power also made the following Washington news last week: Muscle Shoals. The House and Senate deadlock on this legislative antiquity seemed near the breaking point. Reports spread that the House, which has long held out for private operation of the government plant, would shortly be given a chance to vote directly on the Senate's demand for Government operation. Trade Commission. The prolonged investigation...
...hasty ballot-count came to an end throughout the land, it appeared that the voters had achieved that rarest of results, a numerically exact tie in the House. The balance was hardly less close in the Senate where the Vice President's vote might be invoked to break a deadlock...
...forward, scored three of the Crimson's four goals, giving Harvard an early lead by heading the ball into the net about ten minutes after the start of the game. In the second quarter, however, Captain McGinn of the Bruins tied the score on a penalty kick, and the deadlock remained until A. T. T. Schumacher '33 counted on a corner kick near the end of the third period. Before the end of the game, Vogel added two more goals, giving the Crimson an easy margin of victory...