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...great, historic U. S. industry that Labor has never been able to organize. For the past eight months two factions within the American Federation of Labor-President William Green's conservative craft unionists and United Mine Worker John Llewellyn Lewis' progressive industrial unionists-have been at deadlock over the question of Labor's future form of organization, and Labor's future leadership. It was agreed that the man who maneuvered himself into position for the first dash over Steel's frontier would have a heavy advantage over his opponent, the chance of tapping the valuable...
...Dickinson, oldtime Harding supporters have been quietly conducting the same kind of preconvention campaign that Harry Daugherty put on for his Dark Horse in 1920-unobtrusively making friends, taking care not to offend leading candidates, building up a man on whom irreconcilably opposed factions could unite after a convention deadlock...
...been to give the South a veto over the rest of the nation's Democrats, produce much bitter dissension. Knowing that he cannot be beaten by a simple majority, many a trailing Democratic hopeful has hung on long after he should have given up. Longest and bitterest deadlock of this kind occurred in 1924, when it took almost three sweating weeks and 103 ballots to convince the followers of William G. McAdoo and Alfred E. Smith that neither could be nominated...
...best-selling book, We Who Are About to Die. Trial No. 2, ordered by the State Supreme Court, resulted in a hung jury. Trial No. 3 was adjourned due to an irregularity in the venire rolls. Resumed, Trial No. 3 lasted two months, ended fortnight ago in another jury deadlock...
Just reading the second line of the first paragraph of the article "Indiana-Purdue Deadlock" [TIME, March 16]. Quoting "To that state, flat as a huge gymnasium floor"-where do you think Indiana is? Out on the Texas Panhandle? True, we do have level areas but some of our best players come from down in them thar hills. Whoever wrote the article must have been too young to have read Abe Martin and have seen the pictures that went with it. Why, the New Deal says one-third of Indiana is so rough and hilly it should be made...