Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first ashore. Then the crew poured ashore. Little boxes of ice cream were handed to them and they stood around eating it like men dreaming. Someone lowered the Stars & Stripes; someone else pulled a blue ensign up at the bow. But no one touched the ship's accomplishment flag on the periscope-a dodo bird rampant on a black field, with eleven little Jap flags sewn on the margin. At the bottom of the flag were the words: "so SOLLY...
...brave indeed is he who falls In view of flag which he defends...
...caused the Court more headaches than any other group, and now it may lead the Court to the rarest of all judicial acts--reversal of an earlier decision. Last Monday the nine Justices announced that they would hear a second case involving Witnesses who refuse to salute the flag in public schools, and the history of the famous 1940 "Flag-Salute Case" indicates that a change of opinion may be forthcoming...
...same month that saw Hitler's Low Countries Blitz and the obliteration of the French Republic, the Supreme Court held by an eight-to-one vote that a student whose religious scruples prohibited his saluting the flag could be dismissed from the public schools. That decision was a sudden shift from an outstanding ten-year record of liberality in civil-liberties cases. Then, a year later, three members of the majority recanted publicly, stating that they had been in error in the original decision. Justices Black, Douglas, and Murphy did not, however, reveal their reasons for voting with the majority...
...decision in the past five years has harmed the Court so much as that of the "Flag-Salute Case." Sometime this term, another case involving an identical set of facts will come up for consideration. The Supreme Court will then have a chance to leave the siding on which it has been parked and get back on the main track in civil liberties questions. It can prove that a healthy nation need not force children to violate their religious principles by chanting what to them is a mere formula...