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...wanderlust overcame him in 1932 and he traveled in Europe, Asia, Africa. He never went back to Germany. When the Nazis took over, Koppell settled in Palestine, became business manager of the Palestine Post for one and a half years. In 1936 he got into the U.S. on the quota, took out citizenship papers at once. Then he traveled for two years to get to know his new homeland at firsthand...
Says he: "A crooner gets his quota of sentimentality with half his natural voice. That's a great saving. I don't like to work...
...ship quota set for the Maritime Commission when it was organized, 71 vessels, from tankers to the 26,454-ton luxury liner America, have been delivered to ship lines operating under Government subsidy. Some of them have already been taken away or turned over to the Navy. Twenty-nine more have been launched and are in fitting-out basins, and contracts have been signed for 98 more. Meantime, the program has been pushed six months ahead of schedule...
...most striking features of the Harvard artists show at the Germanic Museum are not only the technical virtuosity displayed, but also the wide ranger of material and manner. There is perhaps a tendency towards too close imitation, but every artist seems to follow a different master. The usual quota of New England hillsides, the sort that too many amateurs attempt, forms a surprisingly small part of the total...
Since under plan E a quota is set for the number of votes needed to place a man in office, and any surplus ballots go to the voter's listed choice, the opponents charged that the people are unable to vote for the man of their choice...