Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, "blue law" booster, is having trouble with A. Scott Bullitt, Wet and potent Democrat. Each candidate is anxious to have Senator "Jim" Reed investigate the other's campaign expenses. A Jones advocate cried last week: "If you can get President Coolidge to come out and tell the people of Washington State that he won't let Senator Jones close the moving picture houses on Sunday, I can promise you that the Senator will be re-elected...
Illinois. George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Wet and Democratic, v. Frank L. Smith, Republican Dry, v. Hugh S. Magill, Independent Republican Dry. Until Churchman-School-teacher Magill entered the campaign with his purity festoons (TiME, Oct. 11), Illinois was considered safe for "Insullated" Colonel Smith. If Mr. Magill can poll 200,000 votes, "Boss" Brennan will come out of the Wetlands of Cook County (Chicago), East St. Louis and Peoria with enough of a plurality to win the Senatorship...
Massachusetts. David Ignatius Walsh, Democrat, v. Senator William M. Butler. Here is a state with more than a million voters, where the difference between the two candidates will probably be less than 20,000 ballots. Onetime (1914-15) Governor Walsh, Irish-Catholic, Wet, is the most potent vote-getter in the commonwealth. His strength lies in Boston (outside of Back Bay) and in the large mill towns. Senator Butler echoes "Coolidge and Prosperity," and sounds pleasant to wealthy manufacturers, to rock-bound farmers, to red-brick- and-green-shutter folk from the Berkshire Hills to Cape Cod. Senator Butler...
Missouri. Harry B. Hawes, Democrat, v. Senator George H. Williams, Republican. It is a battle of personalities, with scarcely a wink separating the candidates. Both are Wet; both flay the World Court. Mr. Hawes has the blessing of Senator "Jim" Reed, who, Republicans say, is no blessing to any one. Missouri and Massachusetts are the two most doubtful states in this autumn's elections...
...York. Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, v. Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., Republican, v. Franklin W. Cristman, Independent Republican Dry. Senator Wadsworth, the culmination of all that is prosperous and Wet in the G. O. P., is favored to win from the ablest man whom New York Democrats have nominated in the last quarter century (TIME, Oct. 11). Mr. Cristman will not do much damage outside of Herkimer County...