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Back in Washington as Assistant Secretary of State, Welles arranged for U.S. recognition, a quota for Cuba in the U.S. sugar market, and abrogation of the odious Platt Amendment, which gave the U.S. the right to intervene to keep order in Cuba. Though Batista had endless trouble finding the right President (he tried out seven in seven years, and finally took over the job himself), order and prosperity gradually returned to the island...
...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...
...dean, although touched mightily by the plight of the several Christian fraternities, was a bit shocked by the proposal. "The University," he said, "does not hate now and has never had a quota system." The matter was laid to rest and the group came up with its other proposals to obtain a "better" Jewish-Christian ratio--measures involving big publicity campaigns and more extensive interviews of candidates for admission...
Academically, the classes are ranged in order from seniors to freshmen. The Class of 1952 leads the Dean's List quota with a high of 46.4 percent, and also led the field with 49 (4.9 percent) group I men. Almost 15 percent of the Class of 1955 had unsatisfactories; however, 13 men made group I against 11 for last year's Yardlings...
...them more specifying the number of sopho- sources who can remain in the programs. Boetrom expects the Air Force quote to be almost 100 percent of the applicants, bet Colonel Charies P. Summerall, professor of Millitary Science and Tacties, said Last night that he had no idea what the quota would be for his unit. Quotas are expected to be received for both units sometime...