Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul, Minn., Andrew John Volstead exclaimed: "Nullification! . . . They would in effect repeal the 18th amendment in wet localities by divided responsibility...
...Governor of South Carolina, after a speech by Maryland's Albert Cabell Ritchie, who was the sole Wet spokesman present, arose and thundered Bryan-esquely...
...week Bishop Cannon fired back. He sent a telegram to ecclesiastical journals, widely reprinted. Excerpts: "I DESIRE THE CHURCH TO KNOW THAT I SHALL AT THE PROPER TIME ASK FOR FULL INVESTIGATION OF ALL CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST ME, EVEN THOUGH INSTIGATED BY ENEMIES, AND DISTORTED, AND MISREPRESENTED BY HOSTILE WET PRESS. FRIENDS CONFERRED WITH THINK IT UNWISE TO ASK FOR SUCH CHURCH ACTION UNTIL COMPLETION OF THE BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. . . . MEANTIME, I SIMPLY STATE TO MY BRETHREN THAT I HAVE NOT VIOLATED ANY CIVIL OR MORAL...
...Washington looking on [at the 1927 A. M. A. Convention] when Dr. William Gerry Morgan was nominated for the presidency and without a campaign stood in a dignified way and was voted for and came within a. few votes of being elected. But Dr. Thayer's wet crowd came down from Baltimore to put over a champion and they canvassed and crusaded and that unsuspecting body just barely did it, never thinking that there was a liquor deal in all that propaganda...
When the Portland convention heard this charge there was indignant clamor. Dr. Thomas Clark Chalmers of Manhattan declared: "In this election at Washington, it was I, always known as a wet, who was Dr. Morgan's manager...