Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nobody would try to say that the war hasn't revolutionized Harvard. Anyone can see the difference between khaki and striped seersucker. Also, few would deny that the College had a good-sized quota of "scions of wealthy aristocrats...
...THAT YOU MENTIONED THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WOULD BE ANGRY IF LAW REPEALED BUT FAILED TO INDICATE THAT OTHERS WERE SUPPORTING REPEAL. MOST IMPORTANT ARE THE CALIFORNIA STATE C.I.O. . . . AND THE SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE . . . HAVE URGED CONGRESS TO PASS LEGISLATION REPEALING THIS DISCRIMINATORY LAW AND PUTTING CHINESE ON QUOTA BASIS...
...them] a piece of bread, when what they want is a good hard stone to heave at the enemy." And in peacetime "we give millions for Chinese relief with . . . joy, when we will not even allow a hundred-odd Chinese a year to enter our country on an immigration quota...
...bills before Congress would weasel. It simply repeals specific mentions of the Chinese, leaving them still barred by the general ban. The two others would permit Chinese to enter and become citizens of the U.S. under the quota system. The latter bills immediately raised the specter-mainly in the Hearst press-of a horde of cheap Chinese labor swarming into the U.S. The fact: China's quota would permit the immigration of precisely 105 Chinese a year...
...Representative A. Leonard Allen of Louisiana, argues that repeal of the Chinese ban would immediately generate pressure for the admission of all other Orientals (except, of course, Japs). Representative Allen goes further to argue that tens of thousands of Chinese from Hong Kong might come in under the British quota. One reply was a new bill providing that 75% of the quota must be residents of China proper...