Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Original Subscriber Cadwallader Evans [p. 23, Nov. 8] is too enthusiastic. His guess of 50% is all wet. I'll bet your returns do not amount to 1%, much less 50%. When direct mail advertisers regard 2% as a good return when they are giving good value, even TIME will do well to get even 1,000 people to "fill it in, encase it in an en- velope, address it, stamp it, mail it," when the "it" is a list of questions which can do the answerer no good...
...only direct repudiation of the Coolidge Administration came in Massachusetts where the President's good friend, Senator William M. Butler, was smitten down by David Ignatius Walsh, Democratic Wet, Irish-Catholic. Even in Northampton with the added stimulus of the President and Mrs. Coolidge's personal votes, Senator Butler barely nosed out Senator-elect Walsh by 53 votes. However, the slap at the Administration is somewhat lessened by the well-known, potent vote-getting powers of Mr. Walsh and the colorless conservatism of business-like Senator Butler...
...York was found the biggest surprise of the election. Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., Republican Wet, heretofore regarded almost as much of a New York institution as Governor Smith, came down to the Bronx with a plurality of 250,000. There he met onetime Justice Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, coming up from Brooklyn and the "East Side" with a plurality of 380,000. Mr. Wagner was elected. The new Senator was once a newsboy on the lower East Side with an extraordinarily keen mind and a lust for law. His untarnished reputation on the bench and the tarnished humanity...
...Illinois, in spite of slush, in spite of the hostility of the potent Chicago Tribune and Daily News, Frank L. Smith was elected. He came up to Cook county (Chicago) with a lead of 150,000; met George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Democratic Wet, to whom Cook County had given a plurality of 80,000. In New York State the Democratic city can swing the state, but not in Illinois. The Independent Republican crusader, Hugh S. Magill, ran a poor third...
Alongside of the moneyed Anti-Saloon League, the finances of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment are mere elves, but they grow. Last week the Wet organization filed its report with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, announced receipts of $275,545 and expenditures of $215,070 from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1, 1926. The largest contributor was Edward S. Harkness of Manhattan, Director of the New York Central; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and many another railroad, son of the late famed oil magnate Stephen V. Harkness. Mr. Harkness gave $7,500 and loaned $2,500. His sister...