Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to condemning Anton Bast, the Methodists condemned wet newspapers, wet politicians and all others who audibly oppose prohibition...
...Freshman tennis match scheduled for yesterday afternoon with Columbia Grammar School of New York City was cancelled on account of wet courts. The schoolboys came to Cambridge, but left by train in the early afternoon when they found that play was impossible...
...game was played on a wet, slippery field...
...platform which was adopted included a plank declaring prohibition was not a partisan issue and that law enforcement was necessary. A wet plank asking for the repeal of the Volstead Act was voted down 801 to 291. Further planks called for the prohibition of injunctions, and condemned American intervention in Nicaragua on behalf of American capitalists. A plank introduced by a Porto Rican delegate calling for independence for Porto Rico was defeated without a record vote...
...Four names were heard above the rest as the Democrats wondered whom to invite as Number Two Man of their party next November. Assuming a solidly Democratic South, leaving Candidate Smith to win for himself in the wet East, and regardless of who is the Republican nominee, there are two basic factors to consider in choosing Candidate Smith's ticket-mate...