Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...films, struggling against Italian quota regulations, received another blow. Word came from Il Duce through Italian Ambassador Giacomo de Martino that unless Paramount's version of Ernest Hemingway's Farewell to Arms is revamped to remove all reference to the disastrous Italian retreat from Caporetto during the War, all future Paramount films will be banned from Italy. Further, this may apply to all U. S. films if the present tendency to depict Italians as villains and naughty fellows is not corrected...
...form of a 5,500-word handout to the Press. Mentioning Argentina, Russia and Denmark by name, fighting Mr. Bruce demanded that the Mother Country cut down her imports of Argentine meat, Danish dairy products and Russian wheat and lumber either by Dipping her tariff or by a quota system forcing buyers in the United Kingdom to import more of these things from the Dominions, especially Australia. Mr. Bruce added a long list of articles (notably meat) on which Australia wants preferential treatment, asserting of course that Australia, if generously treated, will respond no less generously...
...Passed a House bill to exempt husbands of U.S. citizens from the immigration quota; sent it to the President...
Charge in Excess of Quota...
...host is disliked by the House members, and because it may in some degree be harmful to the College, the CRIMSON has advocated that new rulings be adopted. The most attractive plan proposed would allow the guest to sign for his own meals and count them on his own quota. At the same time he would not be permitted to eat more than three meals each week in a House other than his own, and he might be required to pay a small surcharge to cover the increased cost of book-keeping on guest meals. Of course every guest would...