Word: deadlocker
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Since 1910 Harvard has scored six soccer victories against the Blue to Yale's four. Two contests have ended in a deadlock. No games were played in 1917 and 1918, when athletics were suspended on account...
...Smith, having contributed to a two weeks' Democratic deadlock last June, is perhaps the larger figure in the public eye. In the election just past, although Coolidge carried New York by more than 800,000 votes, and the Republicans captured practically all the state offices, Al, the idol of Manhattan sidewalks, saved himself with a majority of 100,000 votes. He ran 900,000 votes ahead of Davis. His fame increased...
...Washington: the broad beaming face of Magnus Johnson; the sharper face of his fellow Farmer-Laborite, Shipstead; the keen, shrewd face of Wheeler and the rounder face of Dill, two "progressive" Democrats from the Northwest. Robert M. LaFollette had greatly strengthened his insurgent contingent. At once, there was a deadlock over the election of officers; and the awaited Presidential message was delayed until there could be compromises...
...American nation tonight faces the greatest crisis in its history since the Union was saved from disruption half a century ago. " With the deadlock of the last three weeks still prevailing in Congress-the House deadlocked on the election of a President and the Senate still unable to choose a Vice President-the prospect is that the country will be without a regularly elected chief executive when President Coolidge's term expires at noon tomorrow." Coming on top of the business depression and winter of unemployment . . . Government chaos has, wrought a general consternation. . . . "President Coolidge, at this hour...
...majority in the Electoral College. The Republicans assert that Coolidge is the only candidate who has the chance of such a majority. The Republicans openly hold out the prospect that the "calamity," which would ensue from a failure of the Electoral College to elect, would be a deadlock in the House, with the prospect of Bryan being chosen Vice President in the Senate, and automatically becoming President when the House found itself unable to give a majority either to Coolidge, LaFollette or Davis. Certain Democrats, although of course they cannot hold up their own vice presidential candidate as a threat...