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Your search for: selective AND service AND 1940


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Books on: selective service 1940

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Journal Articles on: selective service 1940

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Magazine Articles on: selective service 1940

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Newspaper Articles on: selective service 1940

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    1940-1949
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 28, 1999
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    1940-1949 IN 1941, TIME...POPULATION: 663,091 1940 ELECTION DAY Democratic...TO ARMS FDR signs the Selective Training and Service Act (or Burke-Wadsworth...The Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the Central...Churchill, in a May 13, 1940, speech to the House...
     
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    Tracing Voluntary Military Service
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), December 23, 2009
    Subjects: 
    Armed Forces, Armed forces
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Tracing Voluntary Military Service. Byline: Doug Bandow...World War I and then in 1940, as World War II impended...notes Ms. Bailey: the selective service system - as its name...resistance to coerced service created a political opening...
     
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    The Original Brew
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), March 1, 2010
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Departmental Auditorium, the 79-year-old site hosted President Franklin D. Roosevelts initiation of the Selective Service System lottery in 1940, as well as the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization nine years later. The couples...
     
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    'I Don't Know Why I Was Picked to Survive' Libertyville Man Was Tagged as Dead in WWII
    Newspaper article by Sue Masaracchia-Roberts; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 30, 2005
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...As number 63, he was among the first from Illinois to be conscripted during one of the earliest Selective Service System call-ups. It was 1940, and Adolf Hitler had promised to be in New York by Thanksgiving Day 1941. Libertyville resident...
     
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    Talk about a Pyramid Scheme: $224,857 a Job?
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 20, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...dividend of useful goods and services." Exhibit B is Franklin...the draft. In September 1940, Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act, which ordered all...economy. Since government services are paid for through the...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: selective service 1940

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    Selective Service
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    SELECTIVE SERVICE in U.S. history, term for...reintroduced in World War I with the Selective Service Act of 1917. All men...peacetime conscription with the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The act provided that not more...
     
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    Conscientious Objector
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...state to compel military service. Such resistance, emerging...substitute for combat service: (1) noncombatant military service, (2) nonmilitary activity...United States between 1940 and 1945. The postwar Selective Service Act, passed...
     
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    United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...already caused the adoption of selective service to build the armed...prosecuted under the Smith Act of 1940, and employees in varied...especially those in the social service and public works areas, although...scale shift of the economy to services and other sectors. States with large service, trade, and high-technology...
     
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    Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...was speeded up. In the summer of 1940, after the fall of France and while...In the presidential election of 1940 both of the major parties supported...United States. The first peacetime selective service act came into full force. In Aug...
     

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