Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is something fascinating about statistics, and a Freshman class is a delight to the statistician. And who was the youngest Freshman that registered in Memorial Hall yesterday? William R. Deal of Permont, New Hampshire, aged...
This year 1.33% more people belong to U. S. churches than last year, reported the Christian Herald in releasing its annual church statistics last summer (TIME, July 12). But Statistician Roger Ward Babson, Moderator of the National Council of the Congregational-Christian Church, has long believed, from a study he made of 1,000 churches, that church attendance is decreasing. Last month, in a sermon such as he delivers annually to Congregationalists at Isles of Shoals, N. H., Moderator Babson impugned the Christian, Herald figures, said that church rolls "contain not only the names of millions who have repudiated...
...Christian Herald's statistician was the late Dr. George Linn Kieffer, a respected Lutheran who died after completing the last census. So the National Lutheran Council, offended by Moderator Babson's statement, rechecked with reporting churches, last week issued a rebuttal to Moderator Babson's charge. Every church, said the Council, stuck by its figures. In many cases, however, church bodies had to take the word of local ministers as to how many parishioners were enrolled. Chief point in favor of the Christian Herald figures: church assessments and quotas, even when marked up to assure a decent...
...dignity and said, "Now, now Mr. McGrady, I'm the Secretary of La. bor." Not until last week did Ed McGrady finally get the automobile and chauffeur which are routine perquisites of his office. He promptly turned them over to one of Madam Perkins' favorites, Statistician Isador Lubin...
Minnesota. Director Sidney J. Williams of the Council's public safety division estimated that if all States had rigid license laws 3,000 lives would have been saved last year. The Council's chief statistician, Reuben L. Forney, showed that 50,274 persons will die in 1950 if fatalities increase as much in the next 14 years as in the past 14. Hopefully, Florence I. Anderson, curly-haired, emphatic secretary of the East Bay Safety Council (Oakland, Calif.), declared that California's compulsory driving schools for traffic law violators were proving to be successful accident reducers...