Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recommend a reduction has . . . laid himself open to the serious charge that he is under the influence of a clique of influential duck hogs who do their shooting in states where ducks concentrate, and . . . want the highest possible bag limit. . . .* We condemned the survey's widely publicized duck census because . . . Redington was using counting-the-ducks as a smoke screen to hide his true motives for opposing the reduction...
...session of the 71st Congress which began last April and ended last week cost the country $177,000,000, exclusive of legislators' salaries which must be paid anyway. Of this amount $151,- 500,000 was voted to start the Federal Farm Board; $19,000,000 for the 1930 Census and House Reapportionment; $4,500,000 for eradication of the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida; $1,000,000 for pay increases to legislative employes; $1,000,000 for legislative expenses, includ- ing $360,000 for publication of the Congressional Record, $200,000 for compilation and publication of tariff information...
Professor Charles E. Persons, for the past year lecturer in the Department of Economics here has been appointed Expert on the Economics of Unemployment in the Federal Bureau of the Census. He will take up his new duties immediately...
...Harvard Professor Persons gave courses in Trade Unionism and Labor Legislation. In his previous career, aside from service in the Unitied States Army during the war, he has been a member of the faculties of Wellesley College and of Princeton, Northwestern and Washington Universities. At the Bureau of the Census Professor Persons will have general supervision of the census of unemployment and of special studies subsidiary thereto...
...Clay Banker Harris was elected to the State Senate without opposition, presently became State Democratic Chairman. His opportunity came in 1912. He was one of the original Wilson men of Georgia, ran the state campaign of that year. In the White House, Woodrow Wilson made him Director of the Census Bureau, later put him on the Federal Trade Commission, of which he became chairman. In 1918 Senator Tom Hardwick was up for reelection, opposed by Bill Schley. The campaign was getting hot when Harris appeared with a letter of endorsement from Wilson. Harris won, was re-elected in 1924 (unopposed...