Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Johns Bulkley, the genial, bulky Wet Democrat who won a Senate seat in Ohio three weeks ago, last week lay abed in Cleveland breaking three important rules. He had bronchitis. He was not traveling around letting himself be seen. He had not yet found an alter ego to build him up as a candidate for the presidency...
...Throughout the campaign National G. O. P. Chairman Fess kept repeating: "Prohibition is no issue between the parties." After he had studied the election returns, he proclaimed: "Prohibition will be a major issue in 1932. I look for the Democrats to seize the opportunity to go Wet.* . . . The South is Democratic first and Dry second. . . . The Republicans won't surrender or straddle. The party will remain Dry or it will be split." Dry little Senator Fess has long shuddered in private at the very real prospect of that "split...
...woman in Massachusetts worked harder to keep her State from going Wet in the election than wealthy, white-haired Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of Beverly, leader of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement (TIME, March 24). Month ago Mrs. Peabody discovered the unwelcome Wet trend, sent her 9-year-old grandson out of the State. When the returns showed last week that a Wet Governor and a Wet Senator had been elected and the State's enforcement act repealed, Mrs. Peabody amazed her friends and relatives by renouncing her Massachusetts citizenship, putting a large For-Sale sign...
Ohio. With Wet Robert Johns Bulkley plowing and grinning the way, Dry George White, Princeton 1895, one-time Klondike prospector, three-time (1911-15, 1917-19) Congressman, recouped as Democratic Governor-elect some of the prestige he lost exactly ten years ago when he tried to make James M. Cox into a President...
Three States-Illinois, Rhode Island, Massachusetts - voted on Prohibition apart from candidates. All went overwhelmingly Wet. Massachusetts' referendum meant most because it carried the automatic repeal of the State's enforcement...