Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second important time in three years that Herbert Hoover had seemed to shout Dry and whisper Wet on Prohibition. Historians recalled that confidential explanations were found necessary after the famed "experiment-noble-in-motive" speech at Palo Alto. It was hastily explained then that Nominee Hoover's attitude was "laboratory...
...Observance had really decided about Prohibition after 20 months of study and the expenditure of $500,000. If Pastor Armistead was embarrassed at having banged his bells prematurely, so was many another Dry throughout the land. Despite their "Conclusions and Recommendations," a majority of the Commission had turned Wet...
Repealer Lemann. Boldest of all was short, swart Commissioner Lemann (pronounced "lemon"), law professor at Tulane University, onetime president of the New Orleans Bar Association, an independent Wet. He alone refused to sign the full report. Instead he filed a voluminous opinion of his own in which he advocated outright repeal of the 18th Amendment. Said he: "Intoxicating liquor is readily obtainable in every city of consequence in the country. ... If the law is not enforceable in cities [where dwell 40% of U. S. population] it cannot be considered enforceable as a national instrument. ... I cannot find any reasonable ground...
...good fortune which had brought such a Report to Herbert Hoover. It was not a mere political platform, nailed down to girders of decision and principle. It was a magic carpet upon which any candidate for the Presidency in 1932 could fly now East, now West; now Dry, now Wet. Had President Hoover been so overweening as to ask Chairman Wickersham for a politically ideal report, Chairman Wickersham could not have complied more skilfully...
Died. Edward Irving Edwards, 68, onetime (1920-23) Governor of New Jersey, once (1923-29) Senator; by his own hand with a revolver, having brooded alone for two days; in Jersey City, N. J. Famed for his vow that he would "make New Jersey as Wet as the Atlantic Ocean," his despondency arose from the death of his wife, from political failure, from financial losses and the realization that he had cancer of the nose...