Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tuesday brought also a quota of cheerful utterances. Said T. B. Macauley, president of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (one of the largest of institutional stock-buyers) : "The present crisis in the stock market squeezes out inflation caused by speculation, and we have taken opportunity largely to increase our holdings, and we are still buying." Said Chase National's Albert Wiggin: "None of the corporations or institutions I am connected with is selling stocks at this time. We are buying." President Hoover said that U. S. Industry was on a sound basis. The banking group also...
...since the present Pope entered the Vatican has the College of Cardinals had its full quota. To fill the vacancies would be: 1) expensive, since Cardinal allowances (except for U. S. Cardinals) are paid by the Pope; 2) embarrassing, for there are many more candidates than places; 3) perhaps impolitic, for already the non-Italian Cardinals outnumber...
Harvard applications for tickets to the game with Yale this year number 690 over the quota allotted to the University, according to figures released by the II. A. A. Of the 57,335 tickets available in the Stadium, of which 1000 are standing room. Yale was allotted 22,934; Harvard...
Legislative Hobbies: A resolution authorizing the Government to undertake extensive research in the cause and cure of cancer ("Millions are spent on hog diseases, why not a few on people?"); a bill to place Mexicans and other Latin Americans under the immigration quota, so that they can no longer freely enter...
...entrance papers were in good condition, his application was accepted at once. This year, however, no applications for next fall will be accepted until March, when notifications of success or failure to gain admission will be sent to all applicants up to that date. In case the quota is not then filled, applications will continue to be received until the full number of desirable students is obtained...