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After a routine opening, the Council met secretly for its second session, which lasted 15 minutes, ended in a deadlock on the issue of Russia's permanent seat, with Poland and Portugal obstructing action which must be unanimous in the Council...
...four long years of War France and Britain tried in vain to break Germany's 435-mile trench stronghold from the Channel to the Swiss border. For four years of Depression the U. S. Government has tried in vain to break the deadlock in the building business, to move the nation's heavy industries once more into open country. Commander Hoover used exhortation. Generalissimo Roosevelt tried a more tangible method of as sault. In May he drew his plans. In June Congress approved them. In July organization began. Last week was launched the great housing drive whose unwritten slogan...
...HOLY DEADLOCK - A. P. Herbert - Double day, Doran...
...propaganda novels are against the Government or in favor of a Communist State. Some have smaller fish to fry. Such a well-sizzled fish is dished up in Holy Deadlock, serious satire on the English divorce laws. Though Author Alan Patrick Herbert is a professional humorist, rings all the ludicrous changes he can on his rickety theme, his book is an earnest arraignment. U. S. readers, accustomed to the elastic chaos of 47 different divorce laws in 47 States,* may not see much in Holy Deadlock to get excited over, but for Britons Author Herbert's circumstantial farce might...
...Walter Kohler, the true paternalist in industry, such demands represented the peak of Labor's ingratitude. On wages and hours he might have compromised but he was ready to risk a bitter labor deadlock rather than recognize the A. F. of L. as the sole representative of his workers. The first crisis came when Kohler Co. ran low on coal, after strikers had blocked three coal cars being switched to the plant. Since the plant furnishes the town with water, Kohler's whole water supply was threatened. Father John Maguire, Federal Labor Mediator, with difficulty persuaded the strikers...