Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...referred to would be undertaken by private organizations within the respective countries." The statement added that the committee would in no way interfere with work on the same problem currently being done by existing agencies; and that no country would be asked to receive more immigrants than its current quota laws permit. Invitations to help set up the committee went to Great Britain, France. Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and 20 South American republics...
...first job was to pass on the accuracy of Devil's Island scenes in The Life of Emile Zola. If he gets a pardon from the French Government, as he hopes, ex-Convict Belbenoit plans to go back to France, return to the U. S. under the quota...
Students who desire to go must write to Henry Reining, Jr., 400 Investment Building, Washington, since Holcombe has not been empowered to choose Harvard's quota. Approximately 75 will make the tour, including both men and women students from all over the country. The students must pay their own expenses...
...Wallace quota on any crop can only be imposed if a two-thirds majority of voting farmers favor it. Last week, 1,189,496 cotton farmers voted for, 97,456 against a quota. Biggest majority was South Carolina's (96%), smallest Oklahoma's (76%). Dark tobacco growers voted for a quota 38,209 to 8,746, flue-cured tobacco growers...
This year's cotton quota has already been set at 26,300,000 acres, to produce a 10,125,000 bale crop (8,621,000 under last year's). Dark tobacco quotas will be 145,000,000 Ibs., flue-cured tobacco 705,000,000. Fines for over-productive farmers, whether they voted for or against quotas, will be two cents a pound for cotton, 50% of the market price for tobacco. Said Administrator H. R. Tolley, "We consider the vote an overwhelming endorsement of the new farm program...