Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strict interpretation of the Prohition Laws with reference to foreign vessels, our government succeeded in getting into a very difficult position. Great Britain, although unable to offer passengers the pleasure of a wet trip home, was not legally affected. But France and Italy found in this interpretation an encroachment upon their wine-ration law. The captain of a French or Itallan ship was faced with the necessity of breaking his country's law or of being arrested by American prohibition officers. Fortunately Secretary Mellon has solved the dilemma in a common-sense manner by allowing the ship doctor to determine...
...York State the last election showed apparently that a wet platform carries the. support of a large vote. For a month there was before Governor Smith of New York a bill to repeal the state's prohibition enforcement law. He had the simple choice of offending either the Wets or the Drys, and he chose to offend the Drys. He signed the bill repealing New York's enforcement...
...significance for the Nation. Governor Smith's action lent a new inspiration to the Wet cause. Already a movement is under way to attempt a similar repeal of a state enforcement law in Wisconsin, although it is, to say the least, dubious of success. The outcome in New York will also place renewed burdens on the already overtasked Federal Prohibition Department. It also may help to force prohibition into one of the leading issues of the 1924 cam-paign.-if the two great parties dare to take it up, or can agree within their ranks on what stand...
William D. Upshaw, Congressman from Georgia: " In a speech at a Baptist Church in Manhattan, I denounced ' wet Democrats of New York who shake hands like Herod and Pilate over the crucifixion of the 18th Amendment...
...William Bell, of the British Institute of Patentees, has published a list of inventions which the world needs, including glass that will bend, a smooth road surface that will not be slippery in wet weather, unshrinkable flannel, a noiseless airplane, a motor of one pound weight per horsepower, methods of reducing friction, practical ways of utilizing the tides...