Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Study your local newspaper. Has it a Wet bias? Is it friendly or antagonistic to the Eighteenth Amendment...
...into wine under the company's instructions, though it is not the Prohibition Unit's policy to raid winemakers' homes where no sale has occurred. Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League repudiated the Maine Senator as a Dry, characterized him as a "Wet-Wet," predicted his defeat this fall...
...Border. On the claim that 85% of Canadian liquor entering the U. S. is run across the Detroit River, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury Lowman tightened his blockade along that mile-wide stream until it fairly bristled with Dry and Wet armament. Pleasure craft traversed it at their own peril. The roughest, tough- est gangster element alone stayed in the rum racket to battle...
Agent Jacques carried his story to Washington. Detroit's wet Congressman Clancy took up his charges, repeated them on the House floor. With a newspaper friend, Agent Jacques was taken to see Assistant Secretary Lowman, to report on battlefront conditions. Mr. Lowman, considerably angered, refused to see him, an nounced that he would have nothing to do with "a man of that type...
...Would you have me promptly deny for you participation in any such transaction? . . ." The Bishop, who said that he first properly "digested and appraised" this ''suggestive skilfully-worded telegram," answered: "Affidavits evidently sent you for purely political purposes to destroy or weaken effect of my opposition to Wet Tammany Candidate Smith, parties selecting you as mouthpiece. I have bought and sold stocks and bonds and other kinds of property for many years, making full or partial payments on same just as other men do, but in such transactions so far as I knew dealt only with reputable brokers...