Word: deadlocking
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...party whose doctrine is largely based on economic principles, it is hard for Labour to find an issue when things go well economically. Not only have Labourite charges of unemployment and economic stagnation become hard to justify, but Macmillan's efforts to break the diplomatic deadlock have frustrated the argument that the Conservatives have taken no initiative to end the cold war. Only the skeleton of Suez and the recent abuses of force in Kenya and Nyasaland haunt the Tories in foreign affairs...
Strikebrinkism. To try to bring pressure for a settlement, David J. McDonald, boss of the 1,250,000-member United Steelworkers union, had slipped away last week from bargaining sessions, flown to Pittsburgh for a private talk with Vice President Nixon. McDonald pleaded for government help to break the deadlock. He remembered the record 62½? , three-year wage package won by the steelworkers in 1956 after Labor Secretary James Mitchell and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey pressured management, knew that this time both Nixon and Mitchell were anxious to see a no-strike settlement. But the Administration stuck firmly...
...break came in 1952, before the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Warren, as he led the California convention eastward by train, had high hopes that he might get the presidential nomination through an Eisenhower-Taft deadlock. (He had been Tom Dewey's running mate in 1948.) Nixon, though pledged with the California delegation to Warren for President, was an active Eisenhower advocate who had also talked privately about the vice presidency with Ikemen Tom Dewey and Herbert Brownell. Fresh from Chicago convention headquarters, Nixon swung aboard the Warren train at Denver, began spreading the word of Eisenhower...
...increase Michigan's 3% sales tax to 4% and avoid an income tax, refuse to release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered a compromise. The compromise, it turned out, was his original offer restated, and it was turned down. As the deadlock continued and funds got scarcer, the Detroit News crystallized a common sentiment about the poverty of statesmanship: "Party leadership has shown it cannot lead, except into disaster. It's time for men of better will to get to work...
...hand until the right candidate comes along, or until Brown can dicker for the vice-presidential nomination. But when they let their dreams balloon, they note that 1) the Democratic convention will be in Los Angeles, Brown's front yard, 2) the Democratic convention is threatened by deadlock. So why not California's Pat Brown for President? Brown has agreed that he would accept a draft...