Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impossible for anyone to reach a settlement with the Communists...
...jury room, tempers grew short. The jury was locked up for the night and returned still undecided. Twice, the foreman reported that they did not think they could reach a verdict. Twice, Judge Kaufman sent them back to try again. Finally, 28 hours and 40 minutes after it had received the case, the jury announced a hopeless and final deadlock. One of Hiss's attorneys leaned over to ask a juror how they had balloted. The answer was a shock to him; eight to four for conviction...
...last year, the court decided it had no power to upset the judgment of the international tribunal which tried them. Now Douglas wanted to know: if the Supreme Court can't scrutinize the tribunals' judgments, who can? "If an American general holds a prisoner, our process can reach him wherever he is," he wrote. "To that extent, at least, the Constitution follows the flag. It is no defense for him to say he acts for the Allied powers." To cope with the dilemma, Douglas evolved a novel formula: the Japanese now serving war-crimes sentences should bring suit...
...Communist victory in China changed the political and strategic map of the world; therefore, it required far-reaching policy decisions by the U.S. Last February Secretary of State Dean Acheson postponed these decisions by saying that he would "wait until the dust settles." Last week China's Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung settled the dust; he made an air-clearing statement that disclosed the U.S. already standing at a crossroads which the State Department had hoped it would not reach until the weather got cooler, say in October...
Slug It Out. One way & another, the Public Health Service hoped to reach 96^ million people. Among them would be a high proportion of the unreported syphilis victims in the U.S., estimated at 2,000,000. The object was to persuade them to step forward and accept penicillin treatment (one day for gonorrhea, eight for syphilis). P.H.S. knows that the fight against syphilis is being slowly won: against some 220,-ooo new cases each year, 373,296 cases were reported and treated in 1947, and 338,141 last year...