Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor and thereby relieve U. S. unemployment, the President ordered the State Department to tighten up its enforcement of the "public charge" provision of the Immigration Law. Under this provision U. S. consuls will be instructed to exercise their discretionary power to refuse passport visas to all non-preference quota immigration applicants unless each can convincingly refute the presumption that upon arrival in the U. S. he will join the jobless and become dependent upon charity. (If the applicant says he has a job promised him, he is automatically barred by the law's "contract labor" restriction.) Application...
...because English industry is doing badly (despite Indian boycotts and U. S. and German competition, more than a million more men are employed in British factories than were in 1921) but because British workmen who used to emigrate by the hundreds of thousands annually are either unable (foreign quota laws) or unwilling to leave the United Kingdom. Chief drawback to the scheme is that it once more passes responsibility for unemployment from Great Britain to the Dominions, who are not at all anxious to increase their own unemployment problems with an influx of workless Britons...
...basis of major fractions-dealing out House seats in round numbers, counting as a unit any remainder more than half, chopping all remainders of less than half. By this process the average Congressional District after 1932 will have a population of 280,762 as compared with the present quota...
...weapon which the motor men were nearly agreed to use was the one which French and German cinemen have found effective: the import quota. Remained only to hit upon a figure which would be high enough not to hurt intra-European trade yet low enough to hamper...
Though approval and enaction of a quota system did not seem immediately probable last week, U. S. motormakers, anxious to offset declining sales at home by expanding sales abroad, were worried by possible spreading of the tariff wall against cars and parts. And business conditions in Europe were another source of anxiety. Bearish items of the week included the dismissal of the entire production staff (600 men) from the Ford plant in Spain...