Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

The authority for the program was renewed several times until the vocational rehabilitation program was made permanent as Title 5, of the Social Security Act in 1935.

Throughout these years, the statutory authorization was for such sums as were necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

Petitioner, who claims to be a conscientious objector, was convicted of violating 12a of the Universal Military Training and Service Act by refusing to be inducted into the armed forces.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

For the Smith-Hughes, George-Barden, and National Defense Act of 1958, the cumulative total of Federal expenditures in 42 years was only about $740 million.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

However, the Federal Court held that since the State had accepted the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act into its own Code, and presumably therefore also the regulations, it was now a State matter.

The passage of the Sherman Act was aimed at giant monopolies.

In 1914, the Clayton Act attempted to take labor out from under the anti-trust legislation by stating that human labor was not to be considered a commodity.

So the audience last night was all ears and eyes just after Act 2, got a rousing opening chorus, `` Where's Charley??

In July 1862, the Second Confiscation Act was passed, which set up court procedures that could free the slaves of anyone convicted of aiding the rebellion.

The passage of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Acts was made possible by the absence of Southern congressmen and senators who had opposed the measures in the 1850s.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.

This prompted some of the first major modern environmental legislation, The Clean Air Act of 1956.

These suits prompted the passage of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in October, 2005.

Callaghan was also responsible for the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 ; a controversial piece of legislation prompted by Conservative assertions that an influx of Kenyan Asians would soon inundate the country.

The aggressive tactic prompted U. S. President Clinton to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battle groups into the region off Taiwan's southern coast to monitor the situation, and PRC's missile tests were forced to end earlier than planned.

Succession is by male-preference primogeniture governed by both the Act of Settlement, 1701, and Bill of Rights, 1689, legislation that limits the succession to the natural ( i. e. non-adopted ), legitimate descendants of Sophia of Hanover and stipulates that the monarch cannot be a Roman Catholic, nor married to one, and must be in communion with the Church of England upon ascending the throne ; these particular clauses have prompted legal challenge.

Most notably, Bassett's Toronto Northmen were forced to find a new home after the Canadian government threatened to ban any American football team from competing with the Canadian Football League ( despite the fact that the Toronto Rifles of the Continental Football League had played in Toronto just seven years prior ); though the Canadian Football Act never passed, the mere threat of it prompted Bassett to move the team to Memphis, where they became the Memphis Southmen, but were generally referred to by fans, local media, and even some official team materials as the " Grizzlies ".

This accident prompted Parliament to pass the 1844 Railway Regulation Act requiring railway companies to provide better carriages for passengers.

The Fennell investigation's findings prompted the introduction of the Fire Precautions ( Sub-surface Railway Stations ) Regulations 1989 ( usually referred to as the Section 12 Regulations because they were introduced under section 12 of the Fire Precautions Act 1971 ).

He appointed a Royal Commission to assess the state of law between employers and employees, the result of which prompted Richard Cross to pass of the Employers and Workmen Act of 1875.

It prompted Congress to pass the National Environmental Policy Act in 1969, which requires an environmental impact study on all major projects needing an OK from the federal government.

Although the federal government did not recognize Walker's election, the political activity prompted the federal government to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act to organize Kansas and Nebraska territories.

With the then newest and nearest bridge spanning the Forth ( the Kincardine Bridge, built in 1936 ) still around upstream, the upsurge in demand for a road crossing between Edinburgh and Fife prompted the UK Government to establish the Forth Road Bridge Joint Board ( FRBJB ) by Act of Parliament in 1947 to oversee the implementation of a new bridge to replace the ferry service.

These attacks, as well as similar incidents that caused the Southern Poverty Law Center to declare in 2002 that the animal rights movement had " clearly taken a turn toward the more extreme ," this prompted the US government to pass the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act and the UK government to add the offense of " Intimidation of persons connected with animal research organisation " to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

Such clauses have often proved highly controversial – for instance, that in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 which prompted the aforementioned report, and the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006.

He said the need for the Act apply everywhere was prompted by the Scarbeck case, a State Department official charged with yielding to blackmail threats in Poland.

The exemption of the theatres from this latter act prompted some critics to denounce this legislation as an attempt to deprive the working classes of their pleasures, as a form of social control, whilst sparing the supposedly more responsible upper classes who patronised the theatres ( though this could be due to the licensing restrictions brought about due to the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, which also applied to public houses as well ).

His 1771 marriage to a commoner against the King's wishes prompted the Royal Marriages Act of 1772.

This is often taken as the beginning of the modern era in UK rail safety. An exceptionally frightful .... in 1889 prompted the passing of a new Regulation Act, two features of which were notable.

The aggressive tactic prompted United States President Bill Clinton to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch an aircraft carrier into the region off Taiwan's southern coast to monitor the situation.

The " Garaudy Affair " had been revealed in January 1996 by the Canard enchaîné satirical newspaper, which prompted a series of denunciations against his book, " The Foundational Myths of Israeli Politics ," and led Garaudy to be charged of negationism ( before being convicted in 1998, under the 1990 Gayssot Act ).

Of the more than 60, 000 Islanders recruited from 1863, the majority were to be " repatriated " ( that is, deported ) by the Australian Government between 1906-08 under the Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901 legislation prompted by the White Australia policy.

Nonetheless, the popularity of the program and the perceived need to connect the vast, isolated central and western areas of the state prompted the passing of the Colson-Briscoe Act in 1949, sponsored by State Senator E. Neveille Colson and State Representative Dolph Briscoe.

The creation of the LCC in 1889, as part of the Local Government Act 1888, was forced by a succession of scandals involving the MBW, and was also prompted by a general desire to create a competent government for the city, capable of strategising and delivering services effectively.