Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Census: The ordinary Senator or Congressman of the party in power is interested in counting U. S. noses every decade because of the patronage he expects to get out of it. Some 100,000 jobs are at stake...
...Passed (57 to 26) a bill to take the census and reapportion the House of Representatives...
...Senate last week by a vote of 57 to 26 disposed of two old constitutional questions in such a way that they may never again arise to plague another balky Congress. They were: 1) the 1930 census; 2) reapportionment of the House of Representatives...
These twin matters were neatly twined into one substantial measure which provided not only for the next census and reapportionment but also set up the machinery for automatically executing these mandates of the Constitution in the future without further Congressional action...
Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week: ¶ Debated legislation to take the 1930 census and to reapportion the House of Representatives; adopted (42 to 37) an amendment to put 100,000 temporary census employes under Civil Service. ¶ Barred press association newsgatherers from the Senate floor as part of its controversy with the press on secret sessions...