Is 1930 during the timeframe of FDR's radio talks? If so, maybe the goverment was
gauging how much of the population the FDR administration was reaching with the radio.
Mary Sleeth Creamer <GodivaM(a)adelphia.net> wrote:Having worked for the Census Bureau
off and on for 20 years- questions like
this are used to study buying trends vs economic status- demographics as to
where in the country these things are most prevalent, etc.
Mary Creamer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Hamilton"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 7:49 PM
Subject: [INSHELBY] got a radio in that house?
Does anybody know why the government asked about radios in the house
in
the 1930 census? I realize they were something of a novelty at that time,
but the government usually had a purpo$e or $pecific rea$on for a$king about
$omething like that. Were they proposing some kind of new federal tax on
them as a source of income during the early days of the Depression?
Ron Hamilton
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