Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directly responsible for the 1930 count is William Mott Steuart, Director of the Census in the Department of Commerce. Texas-born 69 years ago, Mr. Steuart helped take the 1880 census of manufactures, has served almost continuously ever since with this statistical bureau. In 1920 he was an assistant director. This is his first census as No. 1 man. He does not expect to take...
...Each census enumerator is identified by credentials in the form of an official U. S. document headed "Certificate of Appointment as Enumerator, and of Authority Thereunder." It contains the enumerator's name and district, is signed by the local census supervisor and carries a district number to coincide with the bearer's enumeration book...
Three branches of the U. S. Government await the census results with peculiar interest: 1) The Department of Labor to know the real number of unemployed; 2) the Federal Radio Commission to know the real number of receiving sets in the land; 3) the House of Representatives to know the basis on which each State, under automatic reapportionment, will be given popular representation after...
...Census estimates: a birth every 13 seconds; a death every 23 seconds; an immigrant's arrival every 90 seconds; an emigrant's departure every 330 seconds...
...which Mr. White had a very fine collection. The greatest collections of Shakespearean quartos are in English libraries, such as the British Museum. Even in this country, however, Harvard does not hold first place. The best authority in this field is the book compiled by Bartlett and Pollard, "A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto." This census of quartos, published by the Elizabethan Club at Yale, again indicates the superiority of the H. C. Folger collection. Out of a total of 886 quartos described in detail, Mr. Folger owns 124. The Henry E. Huntington library comes next with...