Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause only a piquant wave of gossip in Washington society. What was customary, in this regard, of those in high places was true to a greater degree of the generality of slave owners." Result is a melange of black and white, dashed with red. The U. S. Census counts 20% of Negroes as mulattoes. Private sociological estimates put the mulatto per centage at 80%. Mr. Embree believes that "well above half of the Negroes in America have some white or Indian blood." For a half century Negroes and mulattoes have been marrying mainly among their own color "and so distributing...
These figures were at wide variance with others given out at the White House last week by Secretary Walter Hughes Newton, who said he had got his from the Census Bureau, not at the instance of President Hoover but for an enquirer whose name was not revealed. Government statistics showed that in 1914, at the peak of U. S. brewing, some 75,000 men were employed in breweries. By 1919, State Prohibition laws had cut that number to 42,000. Still making near beer are 6,500 workers...
...bare, lifeless clay knoll surrounded by abandoned coal diggings on the farm of Charles Elkins near Linton, Ind. last week attained national distinction. In Washington the Census Bureau designated it as the dead centre of U. S. population as revealed by the 1930 enumeration. So proud and happy were the 5,077 citizens of Linton to know that an equal number of U. S. people lived in every direction from them that their Rotary Club planned to march the 2 9/10 mi. northeast to the Elkins farm and erect a marker. The knoll's location was given technically...
...special January count the Census Bureau estimated that the unemployed of the nation had increased to 6,050,000 the second winter (1930-31) of the Depression...
...Census, taken in April 1930, reported 2,508,151 jobless...