Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moved in the Senate that 270 millions, in addition to the customary 13 million dollars, be voted for Federal enforcement. Since Senator Bruce detests Prohibition, his motion was deemed ironic. However, as the irony was labored, it was also painful. After enduring for many days the taunts of the Wets, a Democratic Senator from Georgia, who is usually harmless, but who is a passionate Dry, arose and said, yes, more money ought to be appropriated to Prohibition, but let it be the reasonable sum of 25 millions, to be spent as Secretary of the Treasury Mellon saw fit. This...
...dedicated his life to her battle against alcohol. No mean gen eral, he could fight on two fronts, upward in the church, onward against politicians. Both battles culminated last year in un qualified personal victory. In politics, he undermined the Byrd better-government organization in Virginia, which endorsed the Wet Smith, and put the State in the Republican columns. For this activity he was declared last week to be the man who had done most for Religion...
Editor High has hinted what the scroll will say. "It is not only because of Bishop Cannon's leadership but also because of the unselfishness of his leadership that the Christian Herald chose him for this honor. The wet interests reviled him. The wet press made him the brunt of its caricatures. But he never flinched...
...course, to be expected that the wet propagandist would misconstrue President Lowell's recent article on Reconstruction and Prohibition. There is little in it to justify their attempts to use its as a polemic. It is judicial in tone and shows an ability to see two sides to the question. It admits the high moral purpose of the supporters of the 18th amendment, virtually endorsing Mr. Hoover's characterization of prohibition as a great experiment, noble in purpose and far reaching in results. As to the results, the article says, "Prohibition has no doubt done good. It has abolished...
...Hoover conferred with Washington's "Dry" Senator Jones, New Jersey's "Wet" Senator Edge. He induced them to withdraw their joint resolution, pending in Congress, calling for an investigation of prohibition enforcement. In place of Congressional action, Mr. Hoover intends to appoint, shortly after he enters office, a sage, non-partisan committee of perhaps nine or eleven persons to conduct a thorough enforcement inquiry report to Mr. Hoover...