Word: deadlocker
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...exciting contest was waged in the early hours of the convention which resulted in a deadlock between Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York and Newton D. Baker, War Secretary under Wilson. Unable to agree on one of these men, the convention was continued on the following evening, when, after a protracted struggle, which was witnessed by an audience which packed the New Lecture Hall to the doors on both evenings, the choice of the convention was Thomas J. Walsh of Montana for president, and Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York for vice-president. Nine ballots were required...
...Deadlock, for the time being, seemed to be the significance of the election in Prussia. In Hamburg, Anhalt and Württemberg the Brownshirts won similar pluralities, produced similar deadlocks. In Bavaria, second largest German State, the Fascists last week made their poorest showing, were not able to nose out of first place the locally potent Bavarian People's Party...
...deadlock opened the intramural Rugby season yesterday afternoon, when the Freshmen team met a fifteen composed of Winthrop House and University players on Soldiers Field...
...Doomed Battalion (Universal). This is the first important effort to put into a picture the unbreakable deadlock so long maintained by the Austrian and Italian armies in the Dolomite Alps. The picture is that of a very different war from the one of the Western Front, a war white and unreal in which avalanches, blizzards and mountain peaks are tactical considerations. Unreal, but its very unreality, magnificently photographed, is part of its power...
Among the Democrats, another deadlock was visioned, similar to the one of 1924 when Smith and McAdoo fought through endless ballots until John W. Davis was substituted as a compromise candidate. In the event of a stalemate being reached between the supporters of Roosevelt and the powerful opposing bloc it is not unlikely that Newton D. Baker will be the compromise candidate. At present, Smith seems out of the running while Roosevelt is continually recruiting strength from all over the country...