Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacked Harvard as Communistic in the American Legion Magazine, the spring, 1952, issue of "New Foundations" reverses this policy, and puts the College, President Conant, the Board of Overseers, and the CRIMSON on the fascist pole of totalitarianism--using terms such as "white supremacy," "racism," genocide," "segregation," and "quota system...
...quota system at Harvard...
...editors do not stop with their snipe at Conant: "The administration at Harvard and the big businessmen and generals who compose the Board of Over-seas (Overseers) helped to prepare the way for the cross burning by maintaining a quota system ... and by following jim crow hiring practices which permit only two Negro teachers on Harvard's immense faculty...
...Marine Corps, which has been receiving draftees, did not ask for any in those months. It had previously announced that it hoped to rely on volunteer enlistments after it received a draft quota of 4,000 men in May. The Corps indicated, though, that it may take draftees again next fall...
...spent half a million buying enough votes to win got their investment back in millions. For the President's congressional pals, there was a $4,000,000-a-month ration from the state lottery pork barrel. Sticky-fingered politicos picked up fortunes on contracts, customs deals, sugar quota allocations...