Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only important social event of a week in which the President's main relaxation from wrestling with a business decline consisted of making a fireside chat to encourage the unemployment census, preparing a message to what may turn out to be a balky Congress, was the National Press Club's annual dinner at which he was the guest of honor. Earlier in the week, the President was made an honorary member of the American Press Society (see p. 49), had been asked to resign by the Newspaper Guild, of which Mrs. Roosevelt is a member. High point...
...latest religious census of the U. S. was taken in 1926. At that time 55,000,000 people listed themselves as members of a church. Of these church members, 97% belonged to the 24 principal denominations. There are, however, more than 200 U. S. religious groups, half of them with less than 7,000 members. Some of them date from the theological squabbles which attended the religious revivals of the early 19th Century. Some comfort their members with assurances that all the rest of the world is wrong, and will be painfully proved so by some spectacular, millennary cataclysm. Some...
College students are not to register in the unemployment census being taken by the Federal government, according to postal authorities...
...census which is being conducted all over the country this week to determine the number of unemployed will not include college students even when they are seeking part-time employment...
...with reporters by comparing a speculative stock market with speculative news stories (see p. 75). He then settled down for a series of talks with Congressional leaders over plans for a program on farm aid and wages-&-hours for the special session opening Nov. 15. Other callers included Unemployment Census Director John D. Diggers and Chairman Charles F. Hosford of the Bituminous Coal Commission, who had just announced his intention of resigning by January 1 after a protracted wrangle with his fellow members over patronage...