Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crush of immigrants which has lately rushed upon New York and Boston brings to light once more the bad features of the existing quota regulations, plus a new quirk. Secretary of Labor Davis has allowed to land from three to four thousand newly arrived foreigners in excess of the established quota. Although he is apparently within his legal rights. European governments will almost certainly take this as a frank confession that the present law is not living up to the expectations of its framers. This is a sharp break in the prevailing immigration policy, and the first question foreign governments...
Federal immigration authorities ordered out of the country 17 foreign-born students enrolled at the American International College, Springfield, Mass. The students were post-quota entrants to the U. S. Chancellor McGowan attempted to stave off his pupils' deportation by urging that their status as students afforded a refuge from the rigors of quota...
...chasers and destroyers are allowed to disintegrate at their piers through lack of funds and personnel, and both the aeroplane and submarine service are undersize. Perhaps the national lethargy is temporary; it is to be hoped that it is brief, for to bring the navy up to its allowed quota--beyond a doubt a necessity--will soon involve enormous expense...
...ruinous to a country's prosperity; it undermines good relations; and large fighting forces are at least a partial spur to attack. Recognizing these facts the Disarmament Council met in 1921 and established a valuable new regime But to argue that this country should not keep up to its quota or should disarm completely as an angelic example to the rest of the world is utter nonsense. For disarmament does not preclude war, and until the seed of war is completely removed, no nation will be willing to scrap all of its arms...
...words of Lord Curzon to the Imperial Conference in London, passive resistance in the Ruhr has been supplanted by passive assistance. The towns of Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Witten, Horde, Bochum, however, recognized the legality of the Ruhr occupation by agreeing to pay their quota of the occupational costs to France and Belgium. In other places expulsion by the French of resisting population continued...