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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Negro Howard Poe gladly gave a census taker full details of his life, marched to the electric chair, was executed for murdering a policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Principle In Chicago, a census taker rang the doorbell of Negress Ethel Strouther, politely began to ask questions. Vexed, she grabbed a bottle, flourished it over her head and, as he fled, shouted: "I don't talk to strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Washington. D. C., a census taker stumbled into a wooden shack, found a grizzled old man living with eight pet canaries. His name: Daniel Webster. His age: 74. His occupation: carpenter. His collateral ancestor: the late (1782-1852) Senator from Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Professor William James has been appointed census taker of hallucinations in America in behalf of the Society for Psychical Research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT and RUMOUR | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

...Rockefeller money for about a year when the Halloween panic popped practically in Nassau Hall. With a special grant of $3,000 from the Rockefeller General Education Board, Dr. Cantril and associates went after known survivors of the Sunday nightmare with a questionnaire many times as nosy as a census blank. In addition to straightforward questions about the incident, the project's interviewers asked people about Mars, rocketships, religion, superstitions, job security, education, year and make of car, the Czech crisis, choice of newspapers, magazines, books; a hundred other questions, including "For whom did you vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Anatomy of a Panic | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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