Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week "Judge" Smith was ready for the kill. Out of Committee he brought a bill to amend the Wagner Act. Among other changes, the amendments would...
...have at least done something. The U. S. people up to last week's end had shown no inclination to do anything for the world's refugees except read about them. If the U. S. did want to do something, obvious step would be for Congress to amend the quota law. Obvious amendments would temporarily reduce favored Great Britain's unfilled allotment, write off uninterested Yap, Bhutan etc., up the quotas for Germany, Poland, etc., without necessarily increasing the total immigrant quota...