Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week to raise $20,000,000 for war relief (right on the heels of its annual drive, which took in $7,500,000). By week's end the relief fund had reached over $14,000,000. By June 30, the Red Cross hoped to have its quota...
...tape of law threatened to thwart the U. S. will to help. By present immigration statutes, no alien Briton, however young or pathetic, can legally enter the U. S. without going through the slow mill of the quota, nor (by British law) take more than ?10 ($36 last week) out of the United Kingdom...
...will immediately start a survey, through its county societies, to determine the health, military fitness, medical specialties of its 117,000 members. A record will be kept of each man willing to serve, whether in the Army or at a civil post. Each State will have a certain quota of volunteers to fill. If war occurs, men will be called by the county societies as they are needed. There will be no haphazard enlistment of individual doctors, as in World War I. Nor will doctors have to learn how to march and drill, as they...
...drive closed yesterday after collecting $1692.54, $492.54 over the $1200 goal set, John F. Kennedy '40, chairman of the drive, announced last night. "The Committee would like to thank the members of the College for their keen response to the plea of the Red Cross," Kennedy said. "That the quota should have been exceeded by such a large amount is a credit to Harvard and the student body...
...Indiana, Kentucky, Montana. Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wyoming. Both have claimed votes in Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, although these States had selected more than one Republican delegation, faced seating contests at the convention. Many a Republican State boss still sat mum on the sidelines, planned to use his quota of votes to make an effective deal at the convention, or toss them on to the band wagon as it rolled...