National Affairs: Low Jenks

A happy day was November 3, 1936 for a ruddy, 71-year-old Manchester, N. H. retired shoe manufacturer named Arthur Byron Jenks. That day Republican Jenks. running for his first political office, thought that he had beaten Democrat Alphonse Roy for Congress in New Hampshire's ist District by 550 votes. Less happy were many succeeding days as the Jenks-Roy contest shuttled back and forth in a tantalizing series of recounts (TIME, Dec. 7. 1936. et seq.). One count came out 51,679-to-51,679, first tie in a Congressional race in no years. Another gave Contestee Roy...

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