Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immigration problem is a perennial weed, which always flourishes in new countries whose natural resources, cheap land, and high wages offer inducement to foreigners to settle within their boundaries. In the United States the problem has again sprung into life with the proposed changes in quota as established...
There is a minor phase to this question, which has not received much attention either by the government or the press, doubtless because the importance of the larger issues overshadows it. It is, however, of especial interest in academic circles. We refer to the provisions for the extra-quota admission of foreign students who wish to come to this country for a period of study...
...make it extremely difficult, in some cases, for foreign students to come to this country for a three or four year period to study, though they may have no intention whatsoever of a permanent sojourn. The law requires a foreign student desiring to enter the United States outside the quota of his country first to furnish proof that he has been admitted to an American educational institution, and second, what is more difficult, to establish proof to the American consul that he intends to return to his own country at the end of a stated time. What constitutes proof rests...
...quota for this year is nearly filled but prospective students may still file applications. Information and application blanks may be obtained from the Secretary of the School...
...aliens admitted during the last fiscal year may be divided into three approximately equal groups: 1) natives of the quota countries; 2) natives of the nonquota countries, principally Canada and Mexico; 3) returning alien residents of the U. S., temporary visitors, transients, wives and children of U. S. citizens, etc. And, said Secretary Davis proudly: "About three-fourths of the present-day immigrant aliens are in the prime of life-16 to 44 years...