Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came Victor L. Berger, the only Socialist who will sit in the next Congress. (The only Socialist in the last Congress was Meyer London of Manhattan.) Berger will represent the fifth Wisconsin District (Milwaukee)?which he has done before by successful appeals to the Socialist, pro-German and wet sympathizers in his district. During the War he was ejected from Congress and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the Espionage...
...JOHNSON WINS MINNESOTA'S RACE; WET A POOR THIRD headlined The Christian Science Monitor. This is an excellent example of printing something that is absolutely true and at the same time giving a false impression. It is true that the only Wet in Minnesota's Senatorial race came in third. But Wet-vs.-Dry was not the issue. Aid-to-the-farmer was the issue, and it is conceivable that Candidate Carley (Wet Democrat) would have come in just as pitiful a third had he been...
...reason that this new change is notable is because the Judiciary Committee handles all bills on prohibition, and Senator Brandegee is one of the most ardent Wets in the Senate. It so happens that in the House a similar alteration takes place. Representative Volstead, head of the House Judiciary Committee (defeated for re-election last Fall) will be succeeded by Representative Graham of Pennsylvania, a militant Wet...
...Underwood, after four months abroad, returned to this country. In Alabama the State Legislature, which convenes in the middle of July, awaited the Senator's reply to its request that he become a candidate for the Presidency. He is rated a conservative, a "moist" (as opposed to "wet") and an advocate of an active foreign policy...
...year-old mountain girl, skeletons of 9 primitive Indians. 3) In the Burton Mound, Santa Barbara, Cal., remains of a race with remarkable tooth development ? broad incisors like horses, and no cavities. 4) At Warehouse Point, Conn., bones of an Indian of large stature. 5) On the Wet River, Arkansas, implements of a vanished race with arts of weaving and carving. 6) At Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, a great prehistoric com- munity dwelling, by the National Geographic Society, under Neil M. Judd. 7) At Mesa Verde National Park and the Rio Mimbres valley, New Mexico, a pipe shrine house...