Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having, to his surprise, won the nomination, Candidate Jenks waged an earnest campaign. When the ballots were counted, 550 more were tallied for him than for his Democratic opponent, Alphonse Roy (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). Democrat Roy demanded a recount. The recount showed the first Congressional tie in 110 years-51,679 to 51,679. New Hampshire's Secretary of State Enoch D. Fuller, who had been Candidate Jenks's opponent in the Republican primaries, suggested a recount. This gave the election to Democrat Roy by 17 votes. Next Candidate Jenks demanded a recount of the recount...
...Pure. In a scientific industry, Pure Oil Co. has long distinguished itself for the success of its geologists. When the first commercial oil well was drilled in Michigan twelve years ago, Pure Oil men conferred with engineers of Dow Chemical Co. (TIME, Dec. 28), drew maps from salt well records showing probable oil structures near Mt. Pleasant. After buying leases on 500,000 Michigan acres the company proceeded to open up one of the big fields which have since made oil Michigan's third most important industry...
...never tire in their efforts to find Chinese who will act as trustworthy puppets, and in the past two years they have equipped with Japanese rifles, Japanese cartridges and even Japanese machine guns several thousand Chinese known as the Peace Preservation Corps of "General"' Yin Ju-keng (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935 et seq.). Toothy Mr. Yin, who looks most of the time like a startled rabbit, is a Chinese with a potent Japanese in-law who became a "general" overnight by so styling himself, and by the grace of Japanese bayonets. He was ruling uneventfully last week...
...these four keys to the identity of criminals are fingerprints which differ even in identical twins, but even fingerprints are not foolproof. The late John Dillinger had a plastic surgeon mutilate his fingertips with acid but failed to obliterate their prints because the job was poorly done (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The finger prints of another recent murderer, John Hamilton, proved useless to police who found his body a year after his death. Identification of Hamilton was effected because his teeth, most durable part of the human body, were still in his head and because he had been...
...proposed merger of Detroit's Motor Products Corp. with Detroit's body-building Briggs Manufacturing Co. (TIME. Dec. 21): A Vote by the Briggs stock-holders last week to drop the plan...