Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complicated system whereby candi dates are elected on a fixed quota of votes any surplus going to the second choice in- dicated by the elector, who has as many choices as there are candidates in his constituency...
...increase in the alien population of the U. S. for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, was only 268,351. †Non-quota country...
According to the present interpretation of the immigration law, anyone who makes his living by making musical sounds is an "artist" and as such, is entitled to admission into the U. S. regardless of his national quota...
...that true friendship would result from mutual understanding issuing from frank discussion. Then Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,* President of Stanford University and chairman of the Institute, predicted that the U. S. would realize that though people of other races are different they are not inferior, and predicted that the quota system of immigration would eventually be extended to peoples of Asiatic countries. Sessions of the conference were to continue until July 29. The Pacific Institute can discuss conditions, deplore evils, suggest remedies; meanwhile the man who holds official authority and responsibility for Hawaiian affairs is Governor Wallace Rider Farrington. Governor...
...question to the attention of Congress when it should next convene. But he said that the order, based on the Immigration Act of 1924, could not be changed without authority from Congress, nor could any arrangement be made by which Canadian foreign born could be put on the quota ahead of or in place of their fellow nationals who lived at a greater distance from...