Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years the Greek colony of Tarpon Springs has had the local deep sea sponge diving industry to itself. Americans were not interested. Then came the immigration quota law. New recruits from Greece fell off. The new generation of native-born Greeks would not fill up the ranks. By dint of much bickering with government officials an occasional batch of 50 Greek divers would be admitted temporarily, for six months...
...Sausages, buckwheat cakes and maple syrup were served according to ritual at a White House breakfast attended by 14 functionaries of Congress ? chaplains, librarians, doorkeepers and the like. Many were the quips, many the Presidential laughs. After the meal, the President could reflect that he had completed his quota of Congressional breakfasts...
...plea for better, faster begetting (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante). It is not even enough that Italy now leads all Europe in surplus of births over deaths.* Brushing such trifling achievements aside, young, ardent Editor Carli continued, last week, his slashing indictment of barren thin ladies, set a relentless quota...
...need of money for the new gymnasium, the Stadium question, and the expansion of the athletics-for-all policy were the main topics treated by Mr. Bingham in the course of his speech. In spite of the fact that the full quota necessary for the construction of the new athletic plant has not yet been reached, he stated that work on the gymnasium would be carried on as rapidly as possible...
...fill the post of the late William A. Oldfield of Arkansas as their "whip" (assistant floor-leader), the House Democrats appointed Representative John C. Box, a five-termer from Texas. The Box fame: immigration matters. A Box bill now pending is to put Western Hemisphere nations on the quota basis, to keep Mexicans out of Texas (see The Cabinet, "Labor Report...