Registration Day, 1917
May 18, 1917, the Selective Service Act of 1917 was approved, with May 5, 1917 designated as registration day. In his Proclamation, President Woodrow Wilson emphasized that this was "not a draft of the...
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Boston baseball player Babe Ruth, paper cutter Alphonse Capone, freelancer Norman Rockwell, professor Robert Frost, banker Joseph Patrick Kennedy, lawyer Fiorello Henry La Guardia, and actor Harry...
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