Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make up for men who missed out by going to war, Columbia will handle 750 law students each year, but hopes to cut back to its normal quota of 500 by 1951. Even with an expanded enrollment, the law school must reject hundreds of applicants. Before the war, Columbia took in one out of two; now it turns down three out of four. So do Michigan, Cornell and other overcrowded law schools...
Committee, "but we are confident that there are sufficient men in the College of contribute cheerfully from 25 to 40 cents weekly. The committee is prepared to guarantee a House quota if such quotas were assigned...
When the naturalization bar to Indians is lifted, J. J. Singh plans to take advantage of it himself. He will go back to India and re-enter as a quota...
...dozen comic-book publishers had applied to cover the big show, and were turned down; representatives of Air Aces, a bi-monthly pulp comic, and Charm, a fashion slick, were accepted. No group was more peeved at being slighted than the British press, which was given a quota of three newsmen; Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia each had as many. Russia and nine other nations were allowed one each...
...Guatemala, the Government shut off all newsprint to two papers. Reason: their quota was needed for an anti-illiteracy campaign...