Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solution is maintained through a constant proportion of component elements. Messrs. McCarran and Walter (along with a sizeable segment of Congress, which passed the bill over President Truman's veto) decided that in 1920 the national elements in the Melting Pot had reached the proper mixture, and decreed a quota system of immigration whereby the number of aliens admitted from each country was proportional to the national origins of the population according to the 1920 census...
...little ideological twists, which, like most "security" measures, put the burden of proof on the "suspected subversive." Liberals have long attacked these clauses as violations of civil liberties and freedom of belief, but the most glaringly unjust and illogical provision of the Act is its core, the national origins quota system...
...whether or not the quota system is accepted as a necessary evil, a method must be worked out more just and more sensible than what is now in effect...
...difficult to see what colleges the Report is talking about. According to Shannon McCune, "we don't want more than the usual quota of screwballs." But New College is not planned as a roost for "greasy grinds" either. Its students, according to McCune, should be "young men and women of imagination and curiosity--in many fields...
Looking across the border to Soviet Armenia, Turkish natives saw a huge plume of smoke rising from the Communist territory. On that same day-Sept. 2, 1958 -just short minutes before the smoke rose, Allied radio monitors around the southern ring of the U.S.S.R., taping their daily quota of Russian radio talk, recorded the grim conversation of five Soviet jet fighter pilots...