Word: deadlocker
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...negotiations resumed in Lansing at week's end with the return of Walter P. Chrysler and John L. Lewis from Manhattan. Motorman Chrysler's hand was vastly strengthened by the evidence of U. A. W.'s inability to live up to its agreements. This week the deadlock continued as in normally Republican Michigan's elections for minor State offices, widely anticipated as a referendum on Governor Murphy's sit-down policy, the Republicans showed signs of digging out from under the November landslide...
...there is something fishy about the case and demand that the Attorney General reopen it with a view to having the final decree of divorce blocked, thus leaving husband and wife united in what witty A. P. Herbert, M. P.. made the title of a divorce novel - Holy Deadlock...
...capital's only outlet to the sea, raged indecisively. For the first time in five weeks, long-range shells from Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White guns zoomed into Madrid, struck the long-suffering, U. S.-owned telephone building, killed a half-dozen citizens. From the Madrid deadlock Generalissimo Franco turned to strike at Valencia where the Radical Government is taking cover, sent an attacking force to Viver, 34 miles northwest of Valencia, while invading White planes dropped incendiary bombs on Valencia itself. At Oviedo the Reds gained their only success. Reckless Asturian miners paced the streets, lit dynamite...
...might buy 44-hour steel from the U. S. while the U. S. Navy could get no steel. The President had no solution to offer, and next day he put pressure on the steel industry by announcing at his press conference that something must be done to end the deadlock. Mr. Edison consulted Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward McGrady. got a ray of hope when Mr. McGrady called him back to say that TVA had just succeeded in buying $30,000 worth of 40-hour steel from Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.-perhaps the steel industry was weakening...
...undefeated. For Purdue, Big Ten Champions for the past three years, the victory meant an approximate quadruple tie with Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan, at the top of the Conference standing, a good chance to equal a classic Conference record by winning its fourth basketball championship in a row. The deadlock, in the tightest Big Ten basketball season in years, did not last long. Two nights later, Illinois, which had played one more game and won more than the other leaders, held its advantage with a 48to-31 victory over Wisconsin. The same evening, while Minnesota was thrashing Iowa...