Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enlist the services of Col. George Harvey, publicist-extraordinary to all Republican nominees since 1916 (before which he helped "make" Woodrow Wilson). Puzzlers for the cause of so much confusion over the status of Senator Moses found it, or thought they did, in the Senator's wetness. He is a much too forthright gentleman to have concealed his personal convictions on the Wet side. There he stands with Senators Edge of New Jersey and Reed of Pennsylvania, and National Committeeman J. Henry Roraback of Connecticut. Though long potent in G. O. P. councils, all are now most inconspicuous...
...Committee for the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment,* with offices at 100 Wall Street. The secretary of this committee, one Robert Athey, last week announced that 150,000 return postcards had been sent to voters. The cards bear a pledge to "vote against Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet and all those Congressmen who have received money or political support from the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. or bootleggers, so there will be a liberal majority in the next Congress to help
...SMITH "GIVE THE PEOPLE BEER By repealing the Volstead Act." Mr. Athey said that 20,000,000 cards would be sent out before election. He predicted 5,000,000 Wet pledges...
...cannot agree to become a party to the installation in the Executive Mansion of the United States of a man who has been . . . wet . . . and . . . Tammany-branded...
...insulting, conscienceless" choice of John J. Raskob, wealthy Wet, for Democratic National Chairman . . . "faithless, immoral leadership...