Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constitution provides that a census shall be taken every ten years. Agreeably, Congress permitted a census to be taken...
...these two provisions had never been considered in conjunction, and if a reapportionment of Representatives in accordance with a new census had never been taken, only the 13 original states would be represented in Congress today. But almost without a break there has been a reapportionment every ten years. Since 1882 there has been no break in this constitutional tradition...
Early in the session, Representative Barbour of California introduced a bill, based on the 1920 census, to leave unchanged the present total membership of the House, 435, but to bring the apportionment up to date...
Southern Congressmen, some of whose states would lose, said that many Negroes who had gone north in 1920 were returning, and therefore the 1920 census would be unfair to them. (Negroes count as population in the South, not as voters...
...many million people in the U. S. July 1, 1926, by Census Bureau estimate? (See THE CABINET...