Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pittsburgh (population: 673,800) calls its chest the Welfare Fund. Last year 60,292 citizens oversubscribed a $960.000 quota by $13,025. This year, under the guidance of busy Joseph C. Dilworth (Dilworth, Porter Steel Co.), 7,777 workers got 61,652 Pittsburghers to give $2,000 more than the $1,168,000 goal...
Some cities failed to get their full quota, including...
Other Davis immigration proposals: preference under the quota to immigrants who could supply U. S. occupational needs: extension of quota restrictions to North, Central, South American countries...
...aliens were naturalized, principally Italians (44,843), Polish (31,801), Russians (18,291), Germans (16,700), Irish (13,162). Secretary Davis regretted that "a considerable part" of them sought and obtained citizenship solely as a means of bringing their wives and children to the U. S. outside the quota...
...selection of the first eight Juniors to the honored society comes the choosing of 32 Seniors, the first election taking in members of the Class of 1930 this fall. Twenty-five more Seniors will be made members of the Phi Beta Kappa in the spring; but the full quota from the Junior Class, for this year, will be chosen today...