Vice president pulls number for secret unemployment census key. Washington, D.C., Nov. 19. Out of a Texas sombrero Vice President John. N. Garner today pulled out the Number 42--designating on a secret unemployment census key the postal routes of the country which will be sampled to determine accuracy of the nation's first count of its idle workers. John D. Bigger, Unemployment Census Director, is also shown in the picture. 11/19/37