Word: deadlocker
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...present deadlock in the Committee came Saturday when a previously-adopted agreement over fixed parity was scrapped. This had appeared at first to be a House victory, but now there is some question as to which side will come out on top. The aim of a parity program is to give farmers a stable purchasing power, based on some former period of prosperity. The House plan would determine such a period and then maintain it as the price base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks...
Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, reflecting over his failure to break the deadlock, sadly summed up: "It's a matter of principle with both sides." Undoubtedly it was. But the people of the U.S. would have a hard time understanding just what the principle...
...night and returned still undecided. Twice, the foreman reported that they did not think they could reach a verdict. Twice, Judge Kaufman sent them back to try again. Finally, 28 hours and 40 minutes after it had received the case, the jury announced a hopeless and final deadlock. One of Hiss's attorneys leaned over to ask a juror how they had balloted. The answer was a shock to him; eight to four for conviction...
...King's subjects the King's golf is something to groan over rather than cheer about. It opens a revealing little window on the controversial, headstrong personality whose possible return to the throne has put the Kingdom of the Belgians in a constitutional dither and a cabinet deadlock...
...deadlock had thus far prevented sale of a single asset, though 1,100 cartel agreements had been ordered dissolved. Now that some plants were ready for sale, there was another obstacle-a shortage of German capital to buy them. Much of the available capital in Germany was controlled by the cartelists. But the Military Government hoped that enough safeguards could be set up to keep the plants from being secretly bought by the old cartelists or being drawn into new cartels...