Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover met a census enumerator at the back steps of the White House, answered his questions...
...list of First Things in the miniscule Papal State was added last week the first census. Bustling officials, notebooks-in-hand through courtyards and down alleys, listed a total of 565 citizens of the Papal State and subjects of its Sovereign, marginally noted 300 other inhabitants, as yet unnaturalized...
...white-and-blue cover appeared a photographic example of that familiar roadside sign: THE HOME-STEAD-TOURISTS. The frontispiece was a photograph of the gingerbread fagade of a standard, middleclass, dwelling house of the 'gos. The caption said: "Residence on Elmwood Avenue. Inhabited, according to U. S. Census Statistics, by 4.6 persons...
Lamentable is the lack of reliable statistics on U. S. unemployment. Only ten states gather local figures for compilation by the U. S. Labor Department. Not until the 1930 Census is taken in April can the true picture of labor conditions throughout the land be revealed. When President Hoover happily announced last month that U. S. employment had at last turned upward following the stockmarket crash, it was at best an intelligent guess. New York State Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins declared last week that January unemployment in her state was the worst in 15 years, that labor conditions were "very...
...necessary to get the facts. With the cooperation of retail stores of every class and location in the "loop" an all-day census of shoppers was made. Nearly 100,000 persons were interviewed. Analysis of the result revealed that parked cars contributed not 25 per cent, of the number of shoppers, but 1.5 per cent...