Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proved powerless to end). Immigration is in Labor's province and Secretary Davis dwelt at some length on how the restrictive immigration law of 1924 had worked. Two things worried him, or two phases of the same thing. Immigrants from most countries in the Western Hemisphere escape the quota law. The law specifies that natives of Canada, Mexico, Cuba, etc. etc. shall be nonquota immigrants, and recent court decisions have permitted aliens born in quota countries to commute into the U. S. to work, in border cities like Detroit and Buffalo. Secretary Davis viewed alien commuters with alarm...
Investigations of the Phi Beta Kappa elections for the past five years yield in part the statistical results given above, which are of some significance in view of the change this year. As will readily be seen, the old quota of 45 did not allow all of the Magna and Summa men in a class to be elected to the society. The new quota of 65 however, gives opportunity for the election of all these high honor men, in an ordinary year, since in only one year in the past five have the Magnas and Summas awarded exceeded...
Several proposals to extend the immigration quota to the entire Western hemisphere, especially Canada, Mexico, the Philippines...
...quota of men taken into the respective departments is rounded out by the results of this trial. The largest number of men will be taken on in the News and Business Departments, although there are several vacancies on the Photographic Board...
There is a large waiting list of men who were unable to obtain their full quota in the first allotment of tickets, and is expected that they will take a large percentage of the returned number. However, there will probably be about 50 single tickets put on sale tomorrow morning for Harvard...