Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wet and Dry issue last week boiled merrily. In Congress there were debates in both Houses. In the press straw votes were taken. The progress of legislation in Congress was retarded by the first of the debate and the Wets pressed their attack in a way that gained them much publicity and for a time took the Drys aback...
...House the Wet attack centred on Messrs. Upshaw of Georgia and Blanton of Texas. Congressman Tydings of Maryland declared: "Anyone who dares to say anything against the 18th Amendment is called un-American or a hypocrite. As a matter of fact the prohibition law is unChristian. Listen to what St. Paul said: 'If righteousness shall come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain...
Congressman LaGuardia from Manhattan asked Mr. Blanton what he thought of Congressmen who "vote dry but drink wet whenever somebody else buys...
...Senate the Judiciary Committee referred five wet bills and one resolution (to repeal the 18th Amendment) to a subcommittee (which is all dry except for one member, Reed of Missouri). The bills are expected...
...third is Representative William Scott Vare of Philadelphia, another millionaire. He announced his candidacy a day after Mr. Pinchot. He is variously known as the boss or leader of Philadelphia Republicanism. He announced himself as the "Wet Hope" of Pennsylvania. He will have the Republican machine with him, at least in the eastern part of the state. In the western part the Mellons may swing the organization for Pepper. But Vare hopes to take compensation out of Pinchot's vote. He declared: "I shall be opposed by two candidates who would maintain the extreme rigor of the Volstead law. Enforcement...