The 1924 National Origins Act had set a total annual quota ... Hoover changed the quota formula to 1/6 of 1 percent of the 1920 C census figures, thereby reducing the annual overall immigration ...

“The National Origins bill,” Mr. Day said, “which is now before Congress, is as complicated as Professor Einstein’s latest formula, and I hope that it will be eliminated entirely from our ...

When John F. Kennedy served in the Senate, he opined, “(P)erhaps the most blatant piece of discrimination in our nation’s history is the so-called national origins formula,” and he sought ...