Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week ended, subpoenas were being issued or prepared by Senator Reed to call as witnesses officials of the Wet forces, Ku Klux Klan and churches in Pennsylvania. While Senator Reed thus added to his laurels as an investigator, one of his committeemen, Senator LaFollette, drafted and proposed a resolution to bar from the Senate any man sent there at a cost of $25,000 or more. Senator Neely, also on the committee, worked over a similar resolution setting the figure...
...primaries (TIME May 31 et seq. THE CONGRESS,) he tested all winds eagerly for a whiff of larger game. Last fortnight his vigilance was rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women's Christian Temperance Union. Swerving, Senator Reed followed this fresh and fragrant spoor to extraordinary revelations...
Anti-Saloon League. Senator Reed called Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel and "legislative representative" of the Anti-Saloon League. The pretext for calling him was that he had sent the committee information that Wet interests had contributed to Mr. Vare's campaign but the real reason was that Senator Reed has been eager to dig into the affairs of the Anti-Saloon League. During an interval in the hearings, Mr. Wheeler looking rather worn, and wearing a too-large collar approached Mr. Reed...
...major party candidates for Senator are or will be Wet, the same is likely to be the case with the candidates for Governor. Reports last week had it that Governor Smith would seek a fourth term-and he is as Wet as all of Tammany; and reports had it that Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University and noted Wet, would be the Republican choice for Governor...
Playing through a serious rainstorm over the windswept Knollwood course at Lake Bluff, near Chicago, the University of Chicago's "Maroon" team slashed drives from wet tees, mashied onto muggy greens, sank putts into brimful cups, to win the Big 10* golf championship last week. Best golf for the day was played by Ralph Kunstadter, University of Illinois, with two rounds...