Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selectees had a long talk with Kerr trying to persuade him to add two of their teammates, Vern Miller and Dick Pfister, to the list of players who will travel west on December 18. Kerr however, is allowed a narrow quota of only 22 players and since a number of Big Nine stars have already accepted invitations he was unable to find places for the other two stand-out Crimson linemen...
Under the complicated P.R. system, a quota is established form the number of valid voice polled, and once a candidate has received enough to fill this quota, the rest of his votes automatically are distributed among the second choices marked on the ballots. Thus none are wasted...
With a full quota of fliers already enrolled in the Harvard civilian pilot training course, five more undergraduates are taking the Fall preliminary course by filling in across the river at Tufts, where the supply of vacancies exceed the demand...
Reporting to Congress on an investigation of NYA during the past year, Mr. Warren declared he had found evidence of NYA misspending (on travel expenses, Christmas cards, excessive telephoning, etc.). But his gravest charge was that NYA, to keep up its quota of enrollees and justify its appropriations ($161,000,000 this year), had asked Army recruiting officers to refrain from trying to enlist NYA boys...
...banning from the ballot of the Socialists in many states last November, and the New York business men's conference which avowed a preference toward fascism over Socialism? And "Socialism" is a brand for New Dealers in their vocabulary. The problem of the Midwest has not had its quota of thought and discussion, perhaps because it is political dynamite. A hotbed of isolationism, this section is not likely to support enthusiastically a full-scale war; yet when the war is over its people will presumably be asked to submit to a trade-pact tariff-lowering policy, which they feel...