Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voices will be added to the Metropolitan's census. It was interesting to speculate upon which one of these the fierce light of publicity would beat, during the white winter, causing utterances like the "divine spark" speech of Grace Moore, and bringing from far haunts rude, related delegations like the one which attended Marion Talley's debut. Marek Windheim was not in line for these honors : had he been a soprano even, he would still have been a Pole and the Poles are too remote for human interest stories. Aida Doninelli, a Central American diva, would be likewise...
Scouts of Chief Forester William Buckhout Greeley combed the National Forests, climbed mountains, counting big game animals for the Department of Agriculture. Assistant Forester Will C. Barnes, for Secretary Jardine, last week announced the results of the census. C. Young antelopes can be raised on the bottle and old antelopes, fence-fearing, flourish on the open ranges. The U. S. now has 7,665 of these animals, of which 2,157 are in Arizona, only two in South Dakota...
...Alaska holds 2,500 giant brown bears, classified with the grizzly in the census. Outside that territory, diligent search could produce but 880 grizzlies, half in Montana and none in California. One lone grizzly roams the state of Oregon; one dwells at Wasatch, Utah. Alarmed, the department reported: "The buffalo was never half as near total extinction as is the grizzly today." Ordinary, garden-variety black and brown bears have multiplied. C. Deer, elk, mountain goats and sheep show encouraging increases, while the national forests see few moose...
...Passed a bill authorizing the 1930 census ; sent it to the Senate...
...Florence E. S. Knapp and elected her as New York State's first female Secretary of State. Last week, twelve New Yorkers, sitting on a jury, voted to send Mrs. Knapp to jail for grand larceny in office. During the taking of New York's 1925 census, Mrs. Knapp put her stepdaughter's name on the payroll, then received the stepdaughter's checks herself, forged the endorsements, spent the money on clothes. On the witness stand, Mrs. Knapp said her step-daughter had earned the money and knew all about how it was spent. The stepdaughter...