Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immigration from all countries (except Canada and Mexico) is restricted by the quota system...
Naturally U.S. motor men are vexed by the motor quota system, just as are Czechoslovaks by the U.S. immigration quota. But the need of developing a Czechoslovak motor industry is considered vital, and therefore a protective quota operates against even the Allied countries which secured independence for Czechoslovakia after the War. However, the "demand" presented by Minister Einstein, last week, was courteous and purely formal. Negotiations have long been smoothly under way to raise the U.S. motor quota to an annual total of 30% of present Czechoslovak production...
Meanwhile the futility of hired soldiers preyed upon Machiavelli's thoughts. By dint of pulling every known string, he was authorized to organize a national conscription similar to the system he had noted...
...Chicago, Federal Reserve directors discussed radical action, a return to the early system of "differential rediscounting," with low rates for agricultural and industrial loans, high rates for loans destined for speculation. To Manhattan came curly-haired Roy Archibald Young, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, ostensibly on a tour of inspection. But bankers noted his arrival coincided with the issuance of a serious warning by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Banks were "overloaned." The discrepancy between deposits and loans was becoming too great...
...great many subjects in the present collection bristle with further grievances-none of them new; flimsy partitions in European hotels; doctors' persistence in dealing with symptoms rather than causes; England's refusal to adopt the efficient decimal system; U. S. film kings; man's servitude to alcohol; young authors (stream-of-consciousness school) who do not write like Mr. Bennett...