Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Work Done. The House of Representatives last week: ¶. Received a special message from President Hoover requesting extraordinary unemployment relief funds (see p. 14). ¶ Passed the first supply bill, that for the Treasury & Post Office Departments totalling $1,083,553,943 after rejecting (106-10-54) a Wet proposal to eliminate poison as an industrial alcohol denaturant. ¶ Passed an omnibus Civil War pension bill benefiting 675 persons...
...Imperial Household Ministry proclaimed throughout Japan last week that applications from wet nurses will again be entertained...
Eager women in all parts of the Empire heard the call but only from the Kanto district of Southern Japan did candidates set out promptly for Tokyo, since Imperial wet nurses, by tradition, must be Kanto women. Physicians attached to the Imperial Household Ministry began a thoroughgoing medical examination of hundreds of applicants which will continue for at least a month. Conscientious internes cranked and cranked at whirring centrifugal milk-testing machines. Zealous investigators checked the social status of each applicant lest some highborn peeress or ambitious bourgeoise sneak in. For by immemorial custom the two wet nurses assigned...
After twelve years of backing & filling, the American Bar Association last week chose its side of the Prohibition fence, went sopping Wet...
Editor Morrison had to bank heavily upon his distinction between an undenominational magazine, as The Christian Century describes itself, and the denominational press. Except for the Wet Catholic journals, most important of which are Commonwealth and America, the denominational press is mainly a Dry bulwark. Prohibition leans hard upon the support of the Methodist Episcopal Christian Advocate (circulation 250,000), the Presbyterian Christian Observer (34,553), and their like...