Word: driest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts. With redoubled pertness, he shot back at them: "The 18th Amendment will be repealed in about five years, I think. There are five sovereign States [New York, Maryland, Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada] now in revolt against this measure. . . . Three out of four Americans are in revolt. . . . This is the driest Congress we have ever had or ever will have. We have reached the bottom of the hill. The halcyon days of Prohibition are over. The tide is turning...