Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Hoover had ordered the U. S. Census Bureau to discontinue its custom of segregating Negro clerks from white clerks. Senator Stephens called this an "unfortunate action." Senator Stephens referred to "personal political advantage." He said it was a grave injustice to both races and that certain white men and women would have a Negro for their superior officer...
Senator Coleman Blease of South Carolina, who "loves all the citizens of America," made a speech quoting an anonymous woman in the Census Bureau as having written: "We call these colored Census Bureau employes 'Hoover Chocolates' and all wish we could make him eat them...
...Census Bureau's Negroes remained unsegregated, except of their own volition. Southerners continued to be vexed...
...Syracuse University "until such time as my good name is cleared before the world." The Albany district attorney decided that the Governor's investigator's findings should be waived, dropped, forgotten. The findings, which he called "fantastic," charged that Mrs. Knapp, in administering a $1,200,000 census fund, had given sinecures to her relatives, forged endorsements on checks, falsified her expense accounts, obtained false certifications from a notary public, mishandled some...
...Medical School Society, therefore, to vary the daily routine of Medical School life by opportunities for recreation in the true sense of the word rather than to offer opportunities for further work in social and religious service, although the Society recognizes the value of such work and takes a census of each entering class with that in view...