Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legal travel allowance of 20? a mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system of immigration (TIME, March 11); 2) Reapportionment of the House of Rep- resentatives; 3) Development of inland waterways as a part of the Hoover farm relief program...
Phelps was a member of the Junior Eight who were elected of P. B. K. last fall along with 32 Seniors and who will choose the additional members to fill the quota. He is an editor of the CRIMSON...
...late war has left many scars in international feeling that are at last being healed by the processes of time as is indicated by the increasing number of students and professors exchanged between this country and Germany. The restrictions induced by a lack of a sufficient quota of foreign fellowships and scholarships, however, presents an impediment to this bond of mutual relations which is becoming more keenly felt. Dr. Adolf Morsback, director of the German Academic Exchange Service, indicates in his recent report that unless more money is devoted to this purpose it will soon reach the limit...
This year the incoming class was restricted to 500 and this quota was exceeded by 22, raising the size of the student body by 16 percent to a total enrolment of 868 students. The enrolment of graduates of Harvard College, in the Business School, which has remained practically stationary at about 100 men, increased this year...
...other hand, the majority ot U. S people are of British ancestry. British immigration had dwindled when the 1890 census was taken. The British quota on that basis allows only -34,007 newcomers. Under the National Origins system Great Britain's quota would...