Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century and more ago when census takers began to go through the ghettos of German cities, Jews were obliged for the first time to adopt surnames. Sometimes allowed to pick, they chose names of the prettiest things that they could think of-Goldstein (nugget of gold), Rosenblum (blossom of the rose), etc. Last week the German Government again decreed that Jews would have to take names, not cognomens but praenomina, and told them what names to take. The decree ordered that any German Jew who has not an Old Testament given name which identifies his race must before next January...
...state of U. S. railroading. no immediate demands for lower rates will be made. Dr. Dewey, sedate, brown-haired, 37, got his Ph.D. at University of Michigan, made special studies of transportation and public utilities, has lately been chief of the division of transportation for the Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce...
...campaign of 1934, enormous political hoopla was made over a proposed unemployment census which would have furnished a juicy cluster of local census-taking jobs for each Democratic candidate to dangle before his district workers on election day. In the 1936 campaign, charges of corruption in Relief were part of Alf Landon's ammunition. But as items of political history, these "scandals" compare to the great WPA controversy of 1938, as peanuts to a watermelon...
...thanks to able President Biggers for setting TIME'S record straight. Last month President Biggers wound up his job as Administrator of the Government's Unemployment Census, was happy to report to President Roosevelt that he had spent only $1,986,595.46 of the $5,000,000 authorized...
...Washington last week, Unemployment Census Director John D. Biggers, whose Libby-Owens-Ford-Glass Co. has contributed to Ohio's relief troubles by discharging 4,000 of its 5,000 Toledo workers, contributed a garish reminder of the size of the relief problem. He released his final figure on the total number of unemployed who registered in last November's census: 7,845,016. This, as he pointed out, is as big as the combined population of Nevada, Wyoming, Delaware, Vermont, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, New Hampshire, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Maine, Oregon...