Word: wainwright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furor, says Craig, "no other decision would have been consistent with the dictates of the First Amendment." Far from being hostile to religion, the court simply sustained the long-held U.S. belief that "a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion." >Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which overturned a 1942 ruling that indigent defendants in state criminal trials are not necessarily entitled to court-appointed counsel. By its long-held reluctance to require such counsel, the court showed "respect for the concept of federalism." By finally acting, where states had failed to, it was simply...
...CORAY Fort Wainwright, Alaska...
...neatly arrayed for extermination on Clark Field in the Philippines. The only remaining major deterrent to Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia consisted of the British battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse-and they were sunk three days later. Though Corregidor held out for five months, General Jonathan Wainwright's surrender-"with broken heart and head bowed in sadness but not in shame"-was the greatest capitulation in the history of U.S. arms...