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    The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke–Wadsworth Act, Pub. L. 76–783, 54 Stat. 885, enacted September 16, 1940, was the...
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  • Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, enacted September 16, 1940, in preparation for the American entry into World War II Selective Service Act...
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    of the Selective Service System. The previous iteration of the Selective Service System was established by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940...
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    age of 45. The military draft was discontinued in 1920. The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by Congress on September 16, 1940, establishing...
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    Proclamation 4483, also known as the Granting Pardon for Violations of the Selective Service Act, was a presidential proclamation issued by Jimmy Carter on January...
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  • history was authorized under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 in September 1940. This was well in advance of the country's actual entry into...
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    Cold War, the Selective Service and Training Act of 1940 underwent a series of modifications including the Selective Service Act of 1948 and the Universal...
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    Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The fourth incarnation of the draft came into being in 1940, through the Selective Training and Service Act; this was the...
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  • anticipation of war in Europe, Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (Burke–Wadsworth Act). The 1940 Selective Service Act was significant...
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    with the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. When World War II ended, so did the draft. It was quickly reinstated with the Korean War and retained...
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    certain persons convicted of violating the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 as amended". National Archives. Office of the Federal Register (OFR)...
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    "Records of the Selective Service System (World War I)". 15 August 2016.; see also Selective Service Act of 1917 and Selective Training and Service Act of 1940...
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  • passed as part of the CSA's Second Conscription Act in 1862 Selective Service Act of 1917 and Selective Training and Service Act of 1940: United States...
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  • Boobs in Arms (category 1940 films)
    "desert". The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by the United States Congress on September 16, 1940, becoming the first peacetime conscription...
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    Rush Holt Sr. (category Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates)
    to that country. Holt opposed the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act), which instigated peace-time conscription...
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    1940, Investment Advisers Act of 1940) September 16, 1940: Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, Pub. L. 76–783 President: John N. Garner (D) President...
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  • 1939 outbreak of war in Europe and, subsequently, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, passed by Congress on September 14 and signed by President...
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  • George Houser (category Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo)
    announced publicly that they would defy the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. In November 1940 Houser was arrested for refusing to be drafted...
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  • on the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The studio added the Andrews Sisters, who were also under contract, for musical relief, and hired Don...
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  • the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 were, both retroactively and from that date on, considered to be serving in the Army of the United States...
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    34th Infantry Division (United States) (category Military units and formations in Minnesota)
    division commander in August. The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was signed into law 16 September, and the first conscription in U.S. history...
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    Harry Hines Woodring (category American Disciples of Christ)
    isolationist, opposing the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. Woodring ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Kansas in 1946, and for the Democratic Party...
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    to the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which introduced the first peacetime draft in the United States. The Selective Service Act provided...
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    Glenn Miller (category Cultural history of World War II)
    "The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940" required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. The Selective Service System...
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  • Willie Gillis (category World War II and the media)
    or being drafted into the armed forces under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. Rockwell credits the name Willie Gillis to his wife, who derived...
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    Wilton Persons (category United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni)
    A major triumph was persuading Congress to extend the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime draft in the United States, which...
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    Neutral powers during World War II (category Law of war)
    spring of 1940 led the country to significantly expand its armed forces through the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. On 29 December of that year...
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    Battle of Britain. 16 September Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 introduces the first peacetime conscription (this time for men between 21 and 35)...
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    Fred Korematsu (category American civil rights activists of Japanese descent)
    of Japanese descent were inferior and unfit to mix with white people. When called for military duty under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940...
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    Burke-Wadsworth Bill passed on September 14, 1940, becoming the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The influence of the churches was evident in section...
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