Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simpler, however, to match up the blood of individuals than the many mixed bloods of a populous nation. In attempting to execute the orders of Congress, a large corps of census experts, statisticians and genealogists have wrestled for four years with the problem of tracing back for 140 years the ancestry of 120,000 people. The chief results so far have been expert disagreements and rancorous race disputes...
Quotas. In 1921 the quota system was first applied to restrict European immigration into the U. S. A slot method of admission was set up, its size crudely fixed at 3% of the number of foreign-born U. S. residents enumerated in the Census of 1910. This slot seemed still too large. In 1924 it was closed to 2% of the foreign-born population of the 1890 census...
Died. William Sidney Rossiter, 67, census expert, president since 1916 of the Rumford Press;* of heart disease; at Concord...
Unpleasant little things may have afflicted Massachusetts Republicans on Election Day, but national good fortune has its redeeming features. And so "the political plum tree," announces a news despatch in a Boston Paper, will he loaded down with "2000 luscious jobs" when the federal census is take in 1930. Most of the workers will receive only from $80 to $200 for two weeks work, but for those who are more deserving, there are a number of "very fat" positions as supervisors. Evidently the only question worrying the leaders of the Grand Old Party in the Bay State is just...
...Bill provides that after the census of 1930, Congress shall instruct the Department of Commerce to proceed with reapportionment in accordance with the population figures shown by that census. (Bill opponents did most of their talking against the Department of Commerce, arguing that Congress was abrogating a right, a privilege, a duty, in favor of a government department.) Based on a somewhat arithmetical system of "major fractions,"* the Fenn plans provide essentially that the 1930 population will be divided by the number of representatives (435) and the resultant figures taken as the average population of a district. Then the population...