Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative James A. Gallivan of Massachusetts is Irish, Democratic and Wet. In his youth he was a hard-hitting baseball player for Harvard. But more important than that, he is the most popular funnyman in the House. Well do Congressmen remember when he strolled up the aisle to deliver his annual "message" (TIME...
...Wet Congressmen, not the least of whom is Senator Edwards of New Jersey, demanded that "legalized murder" by the Government be stopped. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced last week that he was opposed to the use of poison to enforce the law, but that formula "No. 5" would have to stay until a nonremovable, nonpoisonous denaturant* could be found by Government chemists...
...revolution within him, for his New England blood took the upper hand. It suggested that he give up the livery stable for the law. He obeyed. At 21, he was admitted to the bar; at 24, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Shawnee County. Although backed by many a Wet, Mr. Curtis soon gave notice that he was a Dry, closed the saloons, was reelected. Later, he accumulated a comfortable little income as a criminal lawyer, and in 1893 was elected to Congress, where, except for two years, he has been ever since. In the House he served 14 years...
...Presbyterian, and a Wet, said: "If there is any Vatican prejudicing the freedom of our political life it is not the ancient Vatican at Rome, but the browbeating Vatican which the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church has erected just across from the United States Senate Office Building.... As a Democrat I am not only disgusted with Prohibition, but I have, I confess, grown restive under the long exclusion of the Democratic party from power...
Assumedly the new liquor legislation cannot be rushed into operation before next spring, but Wet optimists prattled of "Booze by Christmas...