Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's suggestions certainly go far toward removing the inequities of the present law. Not only does the President favor an over-all increase in immigrants from 154,000 to about 220,000, but he also would let unused quotas, from nations like England, Ireland, and Germany--which now account for two-thirds of the total quota--be distributed among nations that need higher allotments. Greece, for instance, now has a total quota of only 308, Turkey 225, and Japan 185. The President would also remove altogether from quotas the refugees who have entered under the special Refugee Relief...
These specific changes are not as far-reaching as a suggestion in the President's message that the whole idea of quotas based on national origins needs review. Established by a not-so-international Congress in 1924, the present quota system frankly discriminates against Southern and Eastern Europeans and Asians under the theory that people with English or Northern European names make better citizens. In view of the number of contributions made by the unfavored groups in the past, this thesis is absurd. In this respect the President's suggestion for a special, experimental quota...
...Faith Healer Roberts stormed up and down his platform calling on the halt and lame to come forward. But adverse publicity kept the crowds small (5,000 in a tent that holds 14,000) and the contributions even smaller. Last week Healer Roberts moved on to Melbourne. His stated quota: 1,000,000 conversions before next July...
...Friends. Not only did the Rangers keep up their expected scoring pace, but in the nets, little (5 ft. 6½ in.) Lome Worsley made more than his quota of saves. Even the heavily padded goalie had a place in Watson's statistics. "I'll be satisfied if you let the puck get past you no more than four times a week," said the coach, and at mid-season Lome was ahead of himself, beaten only 82 times in 35 games...
...considered a good wage in Hong Kong). Recently Wen Ko, a cultured former government official from Hunan, was crushed to death by a truck-while shoveling dirt as an earth coolie. To keep the flow of immigration under control, Hong Kong put into effect last March a quota that, in effect, admits one Chinese for every one who returns to China. The colonial service does its best to take care of them all, but in almost every fortnightly health report, the government finds it necessary to report: "Dumped bodies, 18 . . . 22 ... 25," in reference to humans found dead...