Amending the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4949, H.R. 4257, H.R. 4989 and S. 1524, to Provide for the Common Defense and to Prevent Stoppages Or Interruption in the Productin of Munitions in Industrial Plants, and for Other Purposes |
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Page 54 - ... are in preparation for necessary production, but I am more or less expressing my personal opinion on that. Mr. GATHINGS. Do you not think it would be well to leave these students in school and let them continue their military science courses there, and also take their regular work? General HERSHEY. Individuals in the EOTC, that is, in the senior part of it, are deferred by the bill. I have not been able to make myself believe that because I might be fortunate enough to go to college that I would...
Page 46 - The President is also authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to provide for the deferment from training and service under this Act in the land and naval forces of the United States...
Page 46 - Congress shall declare otherwise, the men who, on the 1st day of July 1941, or on the 1st day of July of any subsequent year, (1) are liable for such training and service, (2) have not been inducted into the land or naval forces for such training and service, and (3) have attained the twenty-eighth anniversary of the day of their birth...
Page 29 - The power of the President under the foregoing provisions of this section to take immediate possession of nny plant upon a failure to comply with any such provisions, and the authority granted by this section for the use and operation by the United States or in its interests of any plant of which possession is so taken, shall also apply as hereinafter provided to any plant, mine, or facility equipped for...
Page 29 - Navy, and any individual, firm, association, company, corporation, or organized manufacturing industry or the responsible head or heads thereof owning or operating any manufacturing plant, which, in the opinion of the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy shall be capable of being readily transformed •into a plant for the manufacture of arms or ammunition, or parts...