Word: counting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...same astounding mishandling. According to the explicit instructions on the ballots and the notices accompanying the photographs of the nominees, members of the class were to pick five men for the Album Committee by preference. When the results were made known it was clear that the votes had been counted by straight numerical tabulation and each figure was marked as an equal vote. When this was pointed out to the officers in charge, the answer was that the announcement on the ballot was a mistake and that it had been decided yesterday to count them numerically...
Typical sources of foreign indictments of American culture are Andre Seigfried, Aldous Huxley, Count Keyserling and Lord Bryce
...coach of the Harvard team is A. G. Kulp lG. a recipient of a scholarship in the Graduate School of Political Science who debated three years on the team of the University of Oklahoma. Typical sources of American culture are the works of Aldous Huxley, Lord Bryce, Count Keyserling, and Andre Siegfried. The latter accused Americans of standardizing not only commodities but individual personality in his book "America Comes...
...announcement was official promulgation of the Census Bureau's figures for Congressional reapportionment based on the 1930 population count (total: 122,775,046). The Constitution provides that the House shall be altered to fit the population every ten years. Rural members of Congress, eyeing jealously the people's concentration in big cities, blocked the 1920 reapportionment and only authorized the 1930 change after a bitter struggle last year (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928 et seq.). It was voted to change the number of people whom one Congressman shall represent, not the number of Representatives (435) in Congress...
That evening ancient Count Albert Apponyi addressed a banquet in the Hotel Gellert, spoke quaveringly on the life and virtues of Archduke Otto...