Word: censuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ground for believing that North American Protestant sects, moved by political motives, seek to aggravate religious perturbation in Mexico. It is scarcely conceivable that these sects are striving sincerely for religious uplift and the propagation of their own faiths since in their own United States, according to the official census, there are more than 60,000,000 North Americans without any religion whatsoever...
...More illiterate are Louisiana (21%), South Carolina (18.1%), Mississippi (17.2%). In respect to illiteracy among native whites, Alabama ranks seventh after New Mexico, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina (1920 census...
...announcement was official promulgation of the Census Bureau's figures for Congressional reapportionment based on the 1930 population count (total: 122,775,046). The Constitution provides that the House shall be altered to fit the population every ten years. Rural members of Congress, eyeing jealously the people's concentration in big cities, blocked the 1920 reapportionment and only authorized the 1930 change after a bitter struggle last year (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928 et seq.). It was voted to change the number of people whom one Congressman shall represent, not the number of Representatives (435) in Congress...
Died. Aarvi Nurmi, 26, U. S. census worker, cousin of famed Runner Paavo Nurmi of Finland; found shot through the head near his home in Takoma Park, Md. Died...
Characterized by efficiency in collecting data, an unusual dearth of refusals by the parties concerned to part with information, and a creditable brevity in assembling the facts, the United States census for 1930 has come to an end. There remains only the inevitable array of conclusions always drawn from the inevitable set of statistics...