Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...analysis of the data on the health and employment of 68,000 sick individuals in Boston obtained by the Unemployment Census for six months of 1933-34 is the first task in the general investigation...
...Republicans have not hesitated to point out that President Roosevelt has done no better than his predecessor in assembling facts and figures on the extent of joblessness. Last year the Administration got the House to appropriate $7,540,000 for hiring 105,000 canvassers to take a census of the unemployed around election time (TIME, June 18). Screaming mad at this possible use of public funds to hire 105,000 Democratic campaign workers, Republican Senators succeeded in killing the House bill...
Last week, with a fresh $4,000,000,000 in his pocket and national elections still far away, President Roosevelt heard not a murmur when he announced that he might shortly spend $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 on a jobless census. Since he aimed to employ some 600,000 white-collar idle for the job, it seemed highly unlikely that the census would be conducted along the quick and economical lines of the 1917 draft at a cost of $300,000, as proposed in his column this week by United Feature Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson...
...Columbia Broadcasting announced that there were nearly 2,500,000 more radio sets in the U. S. than anyone suspected, bringing total radio homes to 21,456,000. The CBS cstimate was derived from a Daniel Starch survey of 125,000 homes. Previous figures were based on the 1930 census which was taken at time when there was wild talk of a radio-set tax, particularly in the South where radio-ownership is supposed to have been been generally concealed...
Happy last September was Simon Moulton Hamlin, lantern-jawed, 240-lb. strawberry farmer, when Maine's First District elected him its first Democratic Congressman in some 70 years. Happy was he last month when, at 68, he married the only woman who had ever been a census supervisor in Maine. Arriving in Washington a week later he happily informed interviewers that he had no intention of abiding by the House tradition of silence for first-termers. Twanged he: "I'm almost always foolish enough to speechify...