Word: deadlocker
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...biennial session. Down from Washington as State boss popped Senator Huey Pierce Long to see that things were started according to his will. His mission concluded in three days, Senator Long went back to Washington to resume his national duties. Thereupon the Legislature promptly fell into a do-nothing deadlock which lasted more than a month...
...Germany replies to the French note, rejecting the French offer and demanding immediate disarmament from France. Deadlock...
...Acting individually Great Britain and Italy offer separate plans to break the deadlock, which would allow a certain amount of rearmament by Germany. The Italian plan would limit the new German army to 300,000 men. The British plan offers a compromise of 250,000 men but goes further than the Italian in calling for the abolition of offensive weapons. Both plans are quietly rejected by France and Germany...
Harvard and Yale have agreed to have no more playoff games in baseball. Formerly in case of a deadlock in the home and away games played during Commencement week, a third or playoff game was scheduled. Hereafter the series will be two games only...
...Bruce, tireless head of the Public Works Art Project and himself a painter of some note, wanted realism. Stormed he: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into that building!" Aligned with Mr. Bruce and helping to create a deadlock was Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Silliman Evans. Being put in position last week in the Bepartment of Agriculture was just the kind of mural to which Artist Bruce strenuously objected. It was a 40-by-13 ft. canvas by Gilbert White and distinctly suggestive of ladies in cheesecloth. Taking...