Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happen to be a son of Senator Fess, having resided in New York for the past six years, and, as far as his ever having been classified in the wet column is concerned, I can assure you that you are doing him a very gross injustice. As a matter of fact, he has been a sincere dry advocate during his entire lifetime...
...Wet Fenn...
...Connecticut, a Wet was sure to be elected to the seat vacated by Dry Representative Fenn. Gain...
...blunder when you list Senator Gore as a Wet (TIME, Aug. 25). Senator Gore was nominated in the same election in which the very Dry Oklahoma Constitution was adopted and was twice re-elected as a bone Dry. . . . The Wet wing of the Democratic party of Oklahoma was squelched in the campaign...
...widespread was the impression that Nominee Gore had turned Wet that on Sept. 21 the Anti-Saloon League felt it necessary to publish a Dryish letter from him. In this letter he used the following weasel-words: "Should time and experience demonstrate the necessity for a change in the law, such change ought to be made by the friends of temperance rather than its enemies...