Word: deadlocker
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This is the problem that has split the top policymakers. Last week the deadlock seemed absolute. Aluminum, the key to the problem at the moment, will remain unavailable for civilian goods as long as the Services are convinced that its release will interfere with war production. In effect, the reconversion problem, on whose solution future U.S. prosperity largely hangs, has clashed head on with the lingering problem of war production. This week home front Czar Jimmy Byrnes offered to arbitrate the big dispute. But Donald Nelson still might need all his convalescent strength for the battle ahead...
Warning against the imminent possibility of a disastrous deadlock between the President and a recalcitrant Congress, the Crimson home debators proposed as a possible alternative Wendell Willkie. However, they failed to establish to the satisfaction of the judges sufficient reason for the removal of President Roosevelt from office at this crucial time...
...leaders of Italy's anti-Fascist parties last week made a compromise. They had been confused by Anglo-U.S. dithering, chivvied by Russian pressure, adamant in demanding the abdication of little King Vittorio Emanuele III. Into this deadlock stepped the King's heir, six-foot Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, with an offer to become his father's keeper while the old King kept the crown. By no means fond of Umberto but for want of anything better, anti-Fascist leaders were in a mood to accept...
...Fourth Term was what he regards as the inevitability of continued warfare between President Roosevelt and Congress. "Should the present running row between the Executive and the Congress persist," he declared, "America will find herself in a war crisis and a postwar crisis, and her Government in a hopeless deadlock. Only a fool would close his eyes to this impending crisis. It overshadows all of the other political issues of the approaching campaign...
...chance later; to push him now may hurt his political career, it is said. Why urge his nomination? We are concerned with what happens to the U.S. for the next four years. . . . So great is the suspicion and antagonism toward the present Chief Executive existing in Congress that a deadlock on both foreign and domestic postwar policies is almost a certainty if a change is not made. . . . Stassen has the abilities that we need...