Word: corn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before receipt of this letter from England, TIME had been faithfully corrected by 62 eagle-eyed U. S. geographers.-ED. Pop Corn, Cashier, Governor Sirs: Your issue of Dec. 1 carries a TIMEworthy account of the recent election-accurate and to the point. Except perversely enough your illustration was the likeness of Frank ("Chief") Haucke and not that of Governor-elect Woodring. Also Elk City, Kans. rather than Neodesha, Kans. [about ten miles away] was the Woodring birthplace. His early activities with a pop corn stand attracted the attention of the Elk City banker which resulted in young Woodring...
...photograph. Governor-elect Harry Woodring. first Democrat to win the governorship in Kansas since 1922, was born in Elk City in 1889. Only boy in a family of several girls, he early learned crocheting, a feat much stressed by his political opponents in the recent campaign. However, his pop corn venture, his banking success, his Tank Corps experience proved him man enough to be elected State head of the American Legion. Thus both he and Republican Frank ("Chief") Haucke, another onetime State Legion head, gained local prominence. Gubernatorial Candi date Woodring defeated Candidate Haucke Nov. 4 by the close margin...
...Jonesboro, Ark., Raymond Martin, charged with possessing corn whiskey, explained: "We tried everything to relieve my sister, but nothing did any good. So finally we started giving her corn liquor baths. And now she is well." Said the Judge: "$50 . . . jail...
...Best Corn: Herbert C. Watson, Purdue-trained, of Tipton...
Walter Edwin Frew, president of Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co., will be on the directorate of the new Manhattan bank and last week he was also elected a director of Ingersoll-Rand Co., maker of building and mining machines...