Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicholas Murray Butler, Wet Republican president of Columbia University and of the Carnegie Endowment Foundation for International Peace, the G. O. P.'s Nominee for the Vice Presidency in 1912, sounded off at great length in a letter to the New York Times. He said he could not put up with Nominee Hoover's position on Peace and Prohibition. He was, he said, confident that "Literally, millions of earnest Republicans" would agree with...
...long as we've got prohibition, I'd like to give it long enough to work itself out. ... If we keep it 100 years and the other nations stay wet, we'll either own them or they will be working...
Ohio. With a Democratic Governor, a Democratic Senator, several Democratic Representatives and several Wet cities, the home state of seven Republican Presidents and the birth state of the Anti-Saloon League is inscrutable political ground this year. The Anti-Saloon League apparently demonstrated continued vitality in last week's primary. Both the candidates whom it endorsed for Governor were winners-Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati (Republican) and U. S. Representative Martin L. Davey* of Kent (Democrat). Both the League's candidates for the seat of its dead champion, Senator Willis, came out ahead-U.S. Representative Theodore Elijah...
Hands cupped, legs working in piston fashion, a pair of girl twins, whose age totals 28, propelled their monotonous way through the murky waters of lower New York Bay last week. At Battery Park, abode of the homeless, mecca of excursionists, they were fished out, their wet hands wrung, their likenesses caught by cameramen, their feat lauded. For 38 miles, for 7 hrs. 41 min., they had inched a zigzag course from Sandy Hook. To eschew a tide they headed eight miles out to sea, were met by another strong tide in the harbor. "We could swim back again...
...undoubtedly the greatest State Governor we have had in half a century, and I admire his honesty on the prohibition question. I also believe, because he said it, that he would lead a movement to repeal the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment. Because of the large wet element in the Democratic party, I believe he would have greater difficulty in enforcing the amendment than Hoover would have...