Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...response to an appeal by President Coolidge, a quota of $200,000 has been pledged by Massachusetts, in cooperation with the other states of the Union, for the erection of a mausoleum and a national shrine as a memorial to the late President...
Practically all of the colleges in the East have already raised their quota for the fund. Yale's contribution of $5000 was collected recently, part of $22,000 to be used for charitable purposes...
...drive for a much larger sum. Last year, colleges in the United States raised $146,677. During the past two years, for many reasons, drives for this purpose have not been conducted at the University but in the spring of 1921 a relief drive was held and the quota far oversubscribed...
...called on President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes to inform them that he will introduce a bill to exclude rigidly all Asiatics. He pointed out that if Japan were included under the present quota law in the same fashion as European countries, her annual quota of immigrants would be 2,032. But in the last fiscal year 8,055 Japanese entered the U. S. under the " gentlemen's agreement," aside from those smuggled...
Australia, young and traditionless though she is, has produced her quota of artists, and an Australian exhibition is now in progress at Burlington House, London. There is little, however, that is distinctive of Australia as opposed to the art of other modern countries. The chief figures are Max Meldrum, Norman Lindsay, Hugh Ramsey, George Lambert, Heysen, Gruner...