Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twelve miles north-by-east of Columbus, Ohio, is the center of American morality," declared a Wet editor, referring to Westerville, Ohio. At Westerville 40 state superintendents of the Anti-Saloon League held a three-day convention to draw up plans for the coming year. On comparing notes, they agreed that the Atlantic states are not more than 50% dry and the country as a whole not more than 70% dry, and they decided that the next five years would be the hardest for them-that full enforcement of the Volstead Act cannot be attained before...
Delegates from eleven Southern states issued a declaration that they would urge voters to vote the Republican ticket if the Democrats nominated a Wet (such as Governor Smith or Senator Underwood) for President...
After seven years of prohibition the province of Manitoba "went wet". By a majority of more than 25,000 votes the electorate adopted a system of Government-sold liquor...
Manitoba. After 7 dry years she votes for at least 7 wet...
...cold, wet, windy weather the President and Mme. Millerand, following a custom dating from 1874, opened officially la grande semaine. Despite the unusually inclement elements, large crowds assembled at the Auteuil race course...