Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until he gets men to serve him as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Commissioner of Customs, Comptroller of the Currency, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Director of the Mint, Director of the Budget, Director of Engraving & Printing, Governor General of the Philippines, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Director of the Census, Governor of Puerto Rico, Commissioner of Education, Director of the Bureau of Standards, Director of Prohibition, Commissioner of the Land Office, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, Commissioner General of Immigration, Civil Service Commissioners (3), Farm Loan Commissioners (6), Federal Trade Commissioners (5) and so on & on & on. In addition the President...
Mexico City has a population of 973,299 persons. Last week its Health Department completed a dog census, reported 500,000 dogs...
...sagging spirit of the underfed B. E. F. appeared during its second parade. Early last week in the shuffling silent line of march from the Washington Monument to the Capitol were 4,701 men, 13 women, 17 children-about one half of the police census of the B. E. F. A drum and two bugles furnished all the music. General Glassford on a motorcycle circulated among the marchers, took the friendly salutes of leaders. Parades, he reasoned, do no harm, use up animal spirits. At the Capitol ranks were broken and the Veterans sprawled about to listen to political speeches...
Leaving to others the interpretation of causes, the U. S. Bureau of Census last week observed that the mortality rate has declined in 85 large cities below the rate of last year-from 135 per 10,000 to 124 per 10,000. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service, when he noted this downward drift in the statistics last year, indicated to President Hoover that it was due to frugality and temperance in Depression...
Died. William Julius Harris, 64, senior Senator from Georgia; following an intestinal operation; in Washington. Prestigeous as a banker, he became State Democratic chairman, managed Woodrow Wilson's Georgia campaign, was rewarded with the Directorship of the Census Bureau, later the chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Late in entering the Senatorial contest of 1918, he won over his two opponents when he produced a letter of endorsement from President Wilson. Enemies thereafter accused him of "riding to Washhigton on Woodrow Wilson's coat tails...