Word: deadlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale series, it is interesting to note that the two tie games, coupled with the deadlock of two years ago, are the only stand-offs on record in the thirty-one years of competition. Haytodd, red-headed forward of the Yale team, and member of the second football team in the fall, was the man who wrecked the Crimson's hope for a double victory. His uncannily speedy shot to the open far corner of the Crimson cage and his other tally, scored in the second period, put Harvard in the ruck and enabled Yale to hold the advantage through...
...Duke University, Durham, N. C., student delegates from every State and Territory participated in a Democratic Convention sponsored by politically fervid law students. Amid typical convention scenes, Owen D. Young was nominated for the Presidency, after a prolonged deadlock between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Newton D. Baker had thrown the assembly into an uproar. William ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray turned a surprising upset by being unanimously acclaimed the party's choice for the Vice Presidency. Other nominees: Joe ("Arkansas") Robinson, Albert C. Ritchie, Alfred E. Smith, Jim Reed, and Will Rogers...
Hardly had Mr. Baker's boat passed through the Narrows before speculation began to fit him into the 1932 Democratic puzzle picture. His friends liked to depict him as a rallying point for the "Stop Roosevelt" movement. He was also envisioned as a compromise nominee after a possible deadlock between Smith and Roosevelt forces on the convention floor had spent itself...
...return to more constructive government. If Mr. Baker can break through the present political alignment, he might well be the man to supply it. As an open opponent of Franklin Roosevelt he would doubtless have little chance, but as a dark horse, in case some other candidate should deadlock Roosevelt, he might be the logical choice...
...presidential nomination who receives too large a lead is likely to excite jealousy. The result frequently is a coalition to stop him even at the cost of nominating a weaker candidate, true particularly in the Democratic party. And in the past it has often kept it from victory. The deadlock caused by the Smith forces in the determination to stop McAdoo in 1924 eventually lead to the choice of a little known figure, and disastrous defeat...