Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...72nd Congress, now in the making, will not be subject to reapportionment as a result of the 1930 census totals (see page 16). The 73rd Congress, to be elected in 1932, will have the first redeal of House seats to bring national representation into line with population shifts since...
...Reapportionment of the House was neglected after the 1920 census. *In 1925 Vice President Curtis's tribe of Kaw Indians gave Mr. Haucke the name of Ga-He-Gah-Ahah (''White Chief") for setting up a Kaw memorial monument near Council Grove...
...there were only 30 U. S. cities with more than quarter-million population. Last week the announcement of 1930 census figures showed 8 more cities in that class. They...
Last week New York, still by far the biggest U. S. city, still second in the world, awaited the Census Bureau's decision on the plea of Atlanta, Ga. that it be allowed to include Greater Atlanta, as London does Greater London, in its census count. If the Bureau refuses Atlanta's request, it lends official U. S. support to New York City's claim to first place among world metropolises...
...bill to expend $144,881,902 for future dam-building, lock-building and channel-dredging last week lay on the desk of the U. S. President who answered "Engineer" to the census occupation-query and who last autumn promised his countrymen just such busy-beaverish legislation (TIME, Nov. 4). At home with this measure above all others, he signed it. Then he said: "It was with particular satisfaction that I signed the Rivers & Harbors bill as it represents the final authorization of the engineering work . . . I have advocated for over five years...