Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner and that is a doubtful pleasure nowadays as long as we have to be 'dry.' We all hope that the Secretary will remain in office much longer than this law will last, so that when we do give him a public dinner it will be 'wet...
...Committee on Agriculture whose farm bill is raising such a rumpus. You see that smart young man who is going around and making so much of a party out of this? That is John Philip Hill of Maryland, who has appropriated to himself the leadership of the vociferous Wet bloc. There is Jack Garner, the Democratic Chief on the Ways and Means Committee. It was he who united with Bill Green, the chairman, to make a non-partisan tax bill. That fellow with the flowing black locks, who looks so political-he is Tom Connally of Texas...
...seems to me that in the wording of the questionnaire for the prohibition vote to be taken Monday the drys are at a distinct disadvantage. The proposals of the wets are given the suggestive publicity of specific questions. The proposals of the drys, such as the substitution of imprisonment for fine as penalty for violation, trial without the encumbrance of a jury, increase in the number of enforcement officials, and the like, are not directly mentioned. The CRIMSON article of May third states that those who vote in the affirmative on the third question will do so with the understanding...
...Democratic party in the Senate has three wings: the urban, wet, conservative East, the dry, conservative South, and the Progressive, dry, agrarian West. The tariff and prohibition, two issues which still bear in them the seeds of vigorous dissension, of partisanship and high political fury, will either' of them split this loose confederation...
...great scene of the hearing did not take place, however. Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, did not take the stand, and Senator James A. Reed, the one Wet inquisitor, did not have a chance to ask him the embarrassing question which the Wets had anticipated...