Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth inter-House debate will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Kirkland Junior Common Room at which time the Lowell team will defend the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, That the United States should substantially (by one-third at least) extend the quota on German Refugees" against their Kirkland opponents...
...landing this week, the President may make up his mind: 1) to construe the pogrom as a discrimination against U. S. trade and flex the tariff on German goods; 2) to neglect to send Ambassador Wilson back, a diplomatic slap; 3) to ask Congress temporarily to increase the immigration quota for German refugees. Germany's and Austria's combined quota of emigrants...
...year) is consumed by applications for 18 months to come. At the Department of Labor there was discussion last week of "mortgaging" the quota another 18 months ahead, letting in 81,000 refugees at once. President Roosevelt last week expressed himself against this course, but he did exercise his power to extend for six months the visitors' permits of some 12,000 Germans (of all races and creeds) now in the U. S. The President also asked Myron Charles Taylor, now serving as U. S. representative on the Intergovernmental Committee of Political Refugees, to return at once to London...
...because Britain, already the principal outlet for U. S. farm goods, abolished duties on U. S. wheat, corn (except flat white), lard, certain canned fruits and fruit juices, and reduced by as much as one-third the duties on rice, apples, pears, other canned fruits. Britain also boosted the quota for hams and gave guarantees that ham and cotton would remain duty free...
Instead of the scheduled scientific question, the subject of the Lowell-Kirkland debate will be: "Resolved, That the United States should substantially extend the quota on German refugees." This debate will be held in the Kirkland Junior Common Room on Thursday, at 7.30 o'clock...