Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...district. This inequality arises from the inevitable shifts in population?one State increasing rapidly; another either decreasing or increasing slowly. Wise, the Founding Fathers foresaw this, and provided in the Constitution of 1789 that seats in the House should be redivided among the States, each ten years, according to census. But that is precisely what dishonest Congressmen have prevented since...
This is all that any Congressman needs to know about the mathematics of apportionment in order to protect himself and his state against any injustice in the matter of representation. There is a short-cut process of computation used by the experts in the Bureau of the Census to turn out, in two or three hours, a correct apportionment of any number of representatives on the basis of any given populations of the states; but this is a matter of technical detail. The result is the important thing, and the result can always be checked up, in case...
...farm hills!) 'hill-billies'. We admit our population contains some of the pioneer stock that descended from Boone and his contemporaries, people who are illiterate to a degree, but you must admit that the percentage of illiteracy you 'foot note' was made upon a census that included a large foreign population that work in our mines, brought in by capital, and NOT NATIVE WEST VIRGINIANS! And if you could see the good work being done among this foreign population, if you could see how eagerly they are adopting our ideals and customs and 'book learning...
...submit that House seats should be allotted, not on a basis of mass population, but on a basis of the citizens in each State, the voting population. This idea will be hotly fought by California, which stands to gain perhaps six seats in a Reapportionment based on the 1930 census. California's population, like New York's, was swelled enormously between the census of 1910 and the restrictive immigration law of 1924, by immigrants who have not yet (and in the case of California's Orientals, never can) become citizens...
Rapid increase in Negro churches throughout the north during the last ten years was shown by a bulletin of the Census Bureau last week. The report states that there were 42,585 Negro churches in the U. S. in 1926, with a membership...