Selective Service Act may refer to:
- Selective Service Act of 1917, or Selective Draft Act, enacted May 18, 1917, for the American entry into World War I
- Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, enacted September 16, 1940, in preparation for the American entry into World War II
- Selective Service Act of 1948, enacted June 24, 1948, also known as the:
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- Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1951, as renamed and amended by Pub.L. 82-51, 65 Stat. 75, enacted June 19, 1951
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- Military Selective Service Act of 1967, as renamed and amended by Pub.L. 90-40, 81 Stat. 100, enacted June 30, 1967
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- Military Selective Service Act, as renamed and amended by Pub.L. 92-129, 85 Stat. 348, enacted September 28, 1971
Famous quotes containing the words selective, service and/or act:
“The selective memory isn’t selective enough.”
—Blake Morrison (b. 1950)
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)
“In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)