Doctors and Medical Students Under the Selective Service: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 783, a Bill to Amend the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. March 18, 19, 20, 1941

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Page 4 - 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 22 - Regular or duly ordained ministers of religion, and students who are preparing for the ministry in theological or divinity schools recognized as such for more than one year prior to the date of enactment of this Act, shall be exempt from training and service (but not from registration) under this Act.
Page 4 - Nothing contained in this title shall be construed to require any person to be subject to combatant training and service in the armed forces of the United States who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form.
Page 4 - Justice, after appropriate inquiry, shall hold a hearing with respect to the character and good faith of the objections of the person concerned, and such person shall be notified 'of the time and place of such hearing.
Page 4 - States (1) of any or all categories of those men in a status with respect to persons dependent upon them for support which renders their deferment advisable...
Page 2 - An act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be amended to read as follows: "SEC.
Page 4 - ... shall, if he is inducted into the armed forces under this title, be assigned to non-combatant service as defined by the President, or shall, if he is found to be conscientiously opposed to participation in such non-combatant service...
Page 2 - That in the selection and training of men under this Act, and in the interpretation and execution of the provisions of this Act, there shall be no discrimination against any person on account of race or color...
Page 100 - Possess a license to practice dentistry in a State or in the District of Columbia. (iii) Actually be engaged in the ethical practice of dentistry. (2) Waiver of license and actual engagement in practice may be made for graduates...
Page 4 - States who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form. Any such person claiming such exemption from combatant training and service because of such conscientious objections whose claim is sustained by the local board shall, if he is inducted into the land or naval forces under this act, be assigned to noncombatant service as defined by the President, or shall, if he is found to be conscientiously opposed to participation in such noncombatant...

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