Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lighten the burden of such Empire-building philoprogenitiveness as the Naylors', William Pitt 150 years ago suggested that Parliament contribute to the support of large poor families. Nothing was done about it until 1942, when Sir William Beveridge's "Womb to Tomb" plan prodded a census-minded government to action. In 1945, a month before the Labor Party came to power, the family allowance plan became...
...possible that . . . 1) my Midwest mathematics have me confused, or 2) our good neighbors to the south use a different method of census taking, or 3) (Heaven Forbid) TIME'S reporter has erred...
...voting list was the census. That excluded Labrador's several hundred white stationers who go down north from Newfoundland every summer to live in frame and moss tilts and fish inshore, also the 1,200 summer floaters who fish from vessels offshore. Only the 4,000 year-around white livyers (meaning live here) and the 1,500 Eskimos, half-breeds, Nascopie and Montagnais Indians could vote...
Recently Grinnell's Burma brought the Hart census analysis up to date (1940). He found that after 1910 there was no such rise in the native white population as Hart observed. His conclusion: the figures of the Census Bureau cannot be used to shed any light on the number of Negroes who pass...
Analyzing the U.S. census, he discovered an odd discrepancy in the population of native whites: between 1900 and 1910, the group which was aged 10 to 14 in 1900 somehow grew instead of shrinking. When deaths and emigrations were totaled and deducted, the group mysteriously gained 170,000 in population. Other studies showed that every year some 20,000 Negroes unaccountably disappeared from the census statistics. The obvious explanation: the Negroes had become native "whites...