Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover carried 13 guests out to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. After catching his quota of fish, the President talked shop with Secretary of State Stimson, Attorney General Mitchell, Republican Senators and Congressmen...
...Passed a bill putting Mexican immigration on a quota basis...
Last week the Senate, singling out Mexico from among all the countries of the Western Hemisphere which now have free entry into the U. S., passed (51-to-16) a bill slapping a national origins quota upon Mexican immigration. Recent unemployment had given sharp political point to the long-standing complaints of organized labor that Mexicans were driving its members out of jobs. Dismayed were large employers of cheap labor in the South-west who count on these aliens to work their fields, repair their tracks, do their meanest chores. By quota Mexican immigration would be cut from...
Sentiment in the House to which the Senate bill was sent for further action was ripe for enactment of this first enlargement of the quota system west of the Atlantic Ocean. The voice of Labor in Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico was louder at the Capitol than the voice of Business...
...After a fortnight's debate, voted (34-30) to return to committee the bill placing Latin-American immigrants on a quota basis...