Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author is only five years old as a U. S. citizen, as a writer, 15, as a person, 33. Known to the census as Mrs. Bernard D. N. Grebanier, fellow-Sicilians remember Frances Winwar as Francesca Vinciguerra. Born in Taormina, where her great-uncle was caretaker of the Graeco-Roman amphitheatre, she went to the U. S. with her family when she was eight. A shining advertisement for Manhattan's public schools, College of the City of New York and Columbia University, she speaks seven languages, has published a translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, three historical novels...
...voided by their Junta's unanimous decree. To placate everybody, they promised to turn over the government to "the Constituent Assembly, which is to be called.'' But Commissioner Grau San Martin (pronounced "Grou Sahn Marteen") explained quietly that, before an election could be held, a new census would be needed to clean up the election rolls. To the sugar-workers of the interior, he added that the Junta "has no anti-agrarian tendencies." From the Palace balcony, Commissioner Carbo roared to the crowd, "For the first time in history the Cuban people will rule their own destinies...
...great bulk of child labor, however, is on farms. The 1930 census showed that of the 667,118 children under 16 gainfully employed, 469.497 were engaged in agriculture. These ranged from 6-year-old toddlers sweating in the Colorado sugar beet fields to strapping 15-year-olds strong enough to do their father's plowing...
Last week's analysis by the U. S. Census Bureau of New York State's 1932 vital statistics showed that Utica is the only large city in the State where the birth rate increased last year (up to 17.9 in 1932 from 17.7 in 1931 per 1,000 population). New York City's ratio declined to 15.3 from 16.2 per 1,000, worried realtors and landlords who depend on population increases...
Through close personal contact with this industry and on the basis of 1930 census reports, I know that as far as Georgia cotton mills are concerned, the charge is incorrect and not supported by the facts...