Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queens (TIME, Oct. 29). If so, it was either an ill-informed or a knavish innuendo. The Queens sewer-pipe grafting was effected by a Democratic ring to which Tammany was opposed, and which Governor Smith had specially and successfully prosecuted. * Senator Moses is personally and politically a Wet...
...Republican candidate is what we call a wet...
...Chicago, even the ubiquitous art of stumping has a peculiar technique. For example, Anton J. Cermak, wet Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator, got up on the stage of the Garrick Theatre and produced a photostatic copy of a hospital chart, showing that his Republican opponent, Otis F. Glenn, had received treatment for delirium tremens in 1912. Then Mr. Cermak cried: "I have affidavits here that this man [Glenn], accompanied by Prohibition agents, visits stills and breweries, running illegally, and drinks so much that they have to carry him from there...
Prohibition-Here a split. Wet Republicans insisted that they hoped to see "the experiment noble in motive" worked out "constructively" by Hoover and that "constructively" would mean "liberally," i.e., modification. Dry Republicans approved the words of Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League of America, whose election proclamation...
That great Democratic vote-getter David Ignatius Walsh, Wet Catholic, retained his Senatorial Seat from Massachusetts. Also, in New York, Democratic Dr. Royal S. Copeland survived. But in New Jersey, Wet Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...