Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John McHugh, President of the Mechanics and Metals National Bank, announced that New York's quota was oversubscribed. Ralph Van Vechten. President of the Continental and Commercial National Bank, announced that Chicago's quota was oversubscribed. The other cities followed, piling on their oversubscriptions. Money flowed. No official list of subscribers was given out, but it was understood that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul had pledged $100,000; the Rock Island Lines, $100,000; J. P. Morgan and Co., $500,000; the National City Bank (Manhattan), $500,000; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., $250,000; Henry Ford...
...issuing of quota certificates by consular officers abroad, so that hereafter immigrants need not be turned back after reaching American shores, on the ground that they are in excess of quota...
...cutting of quotas from the pres-ent 3% to 2% and taking the census of 1890 instead of 1910, as at present, as basis for the quotas would reduce gross immigration from about 358,000 to about 159,000. This alienates from the bill large manufacturers who want a well stocked labor market. To counterbalance this group there is organized labor which favors even greater restrictions. The alteration of the basis of the quota from 1910 to 1890 has the effect of a greater proportionate quota for northern and western European countries and smaller proportionate quotas for southern and eastern...
...smuggled into this country. If we prohibit all entrance of Japanese, the Japanese Government will doubtless abrogate this agreement, and increased smuggling of Japanese might result. Mr. Hughes suggested that it would be wiser, and actually do more to prevent Japanese immigration to include Japan under the regular quota, which would give it only 246 immigrants annually. Pacific Coast congressmen opposed Mr. Hughes' suggestion...
Gerald Murphy seems to be a continuous sensation. Only recently the Ballet Suedois (Paris) presented the fantastic Within the Quota, a pantomime of immigration, for which he wrote the synopsis. This ballet was acclaimed by the younger Parisians as a great step toward the liberation of the dance from the archaic forms in which it has been confined. It met with no less comment when presented in Manhattan...