Word: deadlocker
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...Congress and the Supreme Court. He beamed at newshawks with evident exuberance. He fairly smacked his lips over his adroit phrasing, revealing to the Press by intonation and ironic interjection his exhilaration over the most daring stroke he had yet attempted: his long-awaited blow to break the deadlock between the New Deal and the Supreme Court...
...craft unionists. Having digested that message, the conferees met at Governor Murphy's call for their eleventh session. That night G. M.'s Donaldson Brown, emphasizing that G. M. was not walking out of the conference, walked out with a firm statement rehearsing the causes of the deadlock, declaring that Leader Lewis had rejected a proposal to poll the workers secretly under Governor Murphy's supervision. G. M. promised to respond "to an early call . . . to .resume conferences," if in the Governor's judgment "any good can result therefrom." All Governor Murphy's energy went...
...justice's sake General Motors cannot recognize the United Automobile Workers as the sole voice for its employees, nor dare labor, egged on by John Lewis and the C.I.O., back away from its extreme demands. The perfect efficiency of the sit-down method has achieved a disheartening deadlock: a minority of the workers have the power and the arrogance to ask for a representation plan to which they are in no way entitled...
...sextet back on its heels and blanked them 2 to 0 Saturday night at the Garden. Captain George Ford's two tallies, registered at 13:03 and 19:10 of the final session, saved the Stubbsmen from what had all the earmarks, up to that time, of a scoreless deadlock...
...biggest and costliest maritime strike in U. S. history dragged into its seventh week of deadlock. Characteristic of the lack of violence with which this struggle has progressed was the friendly chatting of Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast strike leader, and Roger D. Lapham, president of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., as they waited their turns to debate the strike in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium before a capacity audience of 15,000 (see cut). Characteristic of the stubborn determination which has made the strike a clash of irresistible v. immovable was each debater's proclamation that his side would...