Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill to give immigration quota preference to aliens skilled in arts or crafts...
...Postpone application of the national origins immigration quota system...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman" Pope, "obtained his annual quota of publicity and ridicule by pretending again that the flag flown on Navy ships during religious services is a Popish flag, and offering an amendment to prohibit any flag flying above the U. S. flag at any time. The vote against this Heffling...
From the depths of Central Europe used to come in olden days young, men who, landing in the U. S., went directly to tailor shops and with great shears learned the artful intricacies of cutting out men's fashionable suits. Now, under the quota law, they come no more-or at least not in sufficient numbers to meet the demands of the purveyors of fine suitings. Young Americans cannot or will not serve as apprentice cutters. The ranks of experts grow thin. Wage demands go up. Hence the high cost of fashion...
...Davidson La Follette will complete Wisconsin's quota. Already present is the image of Jacques, sometimes called Pere ("Father"), Marquette, saintly early navigator of the Mississippi...