Word: deadlocker
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...sullen summer heat, strikes smouldered into flame like scattered forest fires. To spotters in the Bureau of Labor Statistics there was nothing new in this-the spark of labor unrest always kindles fastest in summer, when men are irritable, when contract negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of extinguishing stubborn strikes -a Presidential order for seizure of plants...
...British Government offered an
administrative bolus to its No. i political ward case-India. From his
palace in New Delhi, Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India,
broadcast a new proposal to break the country's three-year political
deadlock and put her "on the road to self-government." In London,
Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India, announced the proposal to
an approving Parliament. High points:
...will reportedly take three steps: 1) release all Indian political leaders from internment and otherwise restore civil liberties; 2) call a joint session of the Legislative Assembly and Council of State (upper house of the Indian Legislature) and announce London's new proposals for breaking the long-standing deadlock between Indian nationalists and the British Raj; 3) meet with Indian political leaders of all parties to discuss the proposals...
...blaze of speculation and hope had sprung up around two secondary political figures-the Congress party's Bhulabhai Desai, 67, and the Moslem League's Nawabzada Liaqat Ali Khan, 49, who reportedly had set out to break the interminable deadlock. Both were members of the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi, both felt that they could negotiate with the British authorities more freely than their policy-bound leaders, Mohandas Gandhi and Mohamed Ali Jinnah...
...Chungking another parley between the Central Government and the Communists ended in deadlock...