- Headline
-
Conscription Bill Signed; Proclamation Starts Draft
- Sub-Headline
- President Roosevelt Makes Nation's First Peacetime Conscription Bill a Law at 1 O'clock This Afternoon and Issues Orders
- Publication Date
- Monday, September 16, 1940
- Historical Event
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President Roosevelt Signs Selective Training and Service Act
This database includes 2,535 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- History Unfolded Contributor
- Zachary R.
- Location of Research
- State Historical Society of Missouri (https://shsmo.org/)
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