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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Jenks v. Roy | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Originally declared winner by 550 votes of a New Hampshire seat in the U. S. House last month was Arthur B. Jenks, Republican. His Democratic opponent, Alphonse Roy, demanded a recount, result of which was announced last fortnight as the first Congressional tie in 110 years: 51,679-to-51,679 (TIME, Dec. 7). Last week the State Ballot Law Commission spent eleven hours examining contested ballots, declared Democrat Roy the winner by 17 votes. Prospective Republican membership in the 75th House was thus whittled from a minuscule 89 to a more minuscule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tie Broken | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Hampshire last month Arthur B. Jenks, Republican, and Alphonse Roy, Democrat, ran a close race for the seat of Representative William Nathaniel Rogers, Democrat, retired. Republican Jenks was declared winner by 550 votes. Democrat Roy appealed for a recount. Last week New Hampshire's Secretary of State Enoch D. Fuller announced the result: Jenks 51,679 votes, Roy 51,679. He suggested the rivals ask the State Ballot Law Commission to review the recount. If the Ballot Board does not change it, incoming Governor Francis P. Murphy will probably have to call a special reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Tie | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...single man who inserts the corrections and returns the proofs to the compositors. In their final form the papers are carefully counted and placed in sealed packets to await examination day. The professor as a rule arrives at the Press building half an hour before the examinations begin to recount the papers and ascertain that all is in correct order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Press Becomes a Carefully Guarded Fortress During Exam Period | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

...father who discovered his secret, died soon after All this was the substance of a matter-of-fact novel that won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize contest las week. Simple to the point of bleakness ir its plot, The Old Ashburn Place goes or to recount Charlie's gradual resignation before the complexities of life, his reconciliation with his brother, the accidental death of the erring wife that saved her from disgrace, Charlie's graceful stepping-aside to permit Morris to marry again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prize Problems | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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