Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Census Bureau certified Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, Alaska and parts of North Carolina as areas that have voter-qualification tests that impede registration and where 50% or more of the voting-age population failed to register or vote in 1964. Federal examiners were to be sent to parts of some of these states with authority to register disenfranchised persons. At week's end 45 examiners, having gone through a three-day training course at Civil Service Commission headquarters, already were on their...
...York Stock Exchange's new census figures show that one in every six adult Americans owns stock today v. one in 16 in 1952. The number of stockholders in the past three years climbed by 3,100,000, despite the market break of 1962, and the ranks of mutual-fund holders increased 48% , to 3,200,000. Reflecting the nation's westward shift, California replaced New York as the state with the largest number of shareholders. Cities of under 25,000 population have the fastest-growing number of shareholders, minors are the fastest-growing age bracket in stock...
Phyllis McGinley's message to the housewife is that despite emancipation, despite the vote, despite jet travel and contraceptives and sleeping pills and a steadily rising census of college-educated women, there are still ample rewards and nourishment to be found in woman's noblest and most venerable role as keeper of the home...
...number of counties in other states including North Carolina and Virginia. The triggering device was the main feature of the bill drafted by Administration lawyers and Dirksen's staff, but the Senate added a few wrinkles of its own by providing that: >In any county where the U.S. Census Director finds that less than 25% of the adult Negro population is registered, federal examiners may be appointed...
According to the 1950 census, only one-half of one percent of the total African population had achieved the "civilized" status of an "assimilado," an African enjoying full priviledges of citizenship. The other 99.5 percent are classified as "indigenous." They have virtually no civil rights under Portuguese law, and are required to do forced labor on the roads and plantations of the colony...