Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fill up the full quota of those dismissed by friends of Prohibition...
These are all the nations whose quotas are more than 400 except Italy and represent by far the greatest bulk of the immigration. Italy with a quota of 3,845, had issued visas to only 2,487 immigrants by the end of the first week in June (the latest report). This condition in Italy must be artificial, as a far greater number of Italians are known to be anxious to come to this country. The Italian Government as well as our consuls have been picking the immigrants, which may have had a retarding influence. The Italian quota may be filled...
...immigrants listed from Japan are, of course, of Caucasian or African stock, since no Asiatics are admitted as immigrants. China filled her quota of 100 on the same basis...
...must no longer be left to those marginal moments that remain after course requirements are satisfied. It must become the prominent obligation of Junior and Senior years. This means reducing course requirements. Now that the tutorial system is acclaimed a success, to continue the extra burden of the full quota of courses is to dissipate the student's energies and hinder his most effective development...
...secret preparations, the War Minister admitted that Germany in the past had volunteer recruits beyond the Versailles quota and had manufactured munitions in defiance of the Treaty, but he declared that this was done to meet critical situations involving civil war. The present situation, he insisted, was regular and conformed to the treaty limits. "It is," he said, "absurd to talk about secret preparations. And they know this perfectly well in Entente lands...