Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sinister aspect because it involved a good deal of falsehood in it, was the threat to the Hawaiian Islands delivered by Mr. Wesley Sturges, a Yale professor of law and erstwhile brain-truster with the A.A.A., last summer in Honolulu. Mr. Sturges came to Hawaii to arrange the sugar quotas to be allotted to the plantations in the islands. At the same time the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association was preparing to file a suit in Washington to restrain Secretary Wallace from enforcing the Costigan-Jones sugar-quota law in Hawaii. The planters' contention was--and it appears quite justifiable--that...
...Federal regulation came last fortnight when Government prosecutors suddenly withdrew a test case which had been carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. The reason given was a '"technicality": the clause in every other copy of the Oil Code which made a violation of a State production quota a violation of the Code-the clause on which the whole case hinged - was found to be missing from the original text signed by the President. New oil legislation will probably be presented to the next Congress but oil men are now looking for relief in other directions. Just before...
...heavy tax collections are the result of an aggressive campaign begun by Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. last January in which "quota" systems were instituted for Federal Tax collectors...
Negotiations are now being carried on to permit Harvard students to leave Cambridge during February and March to attend the Washington School. A faculty selection committee, yet to be named, would nominate Harvard's quota. Most of the appointments provide the instruction free, and there are a limited number of scholarships available for transportation, board, and room. Professors from various universities will also be in attendance for the two months...
Bowdoin Square: "Dames"--This picture stars Ruby Keller, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, and Zazu Pitts. The latter supplies her usual quota of laughs, and the picture as a whole is well worth seeing. The companion picture will be the "Cats Paw", Harold Lloyd's latest film. There are also five acts of vaudeville...