...sections 2151, 2153, 2154, 2155, and 2156 of title 18, United States Code; an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto; the Selective Training and Service...

...testify at hearings before the House Committee on Military Affairs. At issue was a bill authorizing the president to increase temporarily the "military establishment" of the United States. "Is it democratic to force men who do not believe in this war to go to war?" Reed thundered at the...

...for temporary promotion to higher grades in any of the forces provided by the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States." This was passed retroactive to 18 May 1917 but not signed by the president until 18 January 1919. Barnett,...

...Representatives Committee on Military Affairs, Sixty-Fifth Congress, First Session, on the Bill Authorizing the President to Increase Temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States, April 7, 9-11, 14 and 17, 1917 (Washington, DC: Washington Printing Office, 1917), pp. 238-240. Miss...