Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political spite or not, it at least adds weight to the growing anti prohibition sentiment along the North Atlantic seaboard. In New York, former Attorney General Tuffle has been nominated by the Republicans to run for governor on a repeal platform, while Democratic Governor Roosevelt has finally felt that wet sentiment was more than strong enough among is constituents to allow him to come out flatly for the repeal of the 18th Amendment, although he felt constrained to evade the liquor issue when he first ran for governor...
Marcus Coolidge, the Democratic senatorial nominee from Massachusetts, is running on a dripping wet platform. William Butler, however, is entering the race with a laissez-faire, evasive liquor statement which certainly does not satisfy the wets and should not please the drys. In the Era of Prosperity which carried Republican Mr. Coolidge to his second term as president of the United States and equally Republican Mr. Hoover to his first, it was very easy for the Republicans to run on platforms which "guaranteed" merely continuance of the status...
Superintendent McBride has claimed a Dry strength of 325 in the next House. To substantiate this claim his organization must win each & every one of the 24 contests and, in addition, defeat 16 of the 90 sitting Wet members...
...Finch had sold some of his stock to a Republican senatorial candidate, William Van Derveer Hodges, then endorsed him, reputedly a personal Wet. To Senatorial Nominee George Hamlin Shaw no stock was sold, no endorsement given (TIME, Sept. 8, Sept. 22). Other endorsed stockbuyers: Democratic Senatorial Nominee Edward Prentice Costigan, Governor William H. Adams, onetime Senator Alva Blanchard Adams, two district attorneys...
...Germany's divisional staffs sloshed back and forth in the rain last week, President Paul von Hindenburg wore the last uniform that was his by right, crammed his grizzled head into the spiked pickelhaube of a Field Marshal of the Imperial German army, and motored, soaking wet, from regiment to regiment. At every headquarters he rumbled pertinent questions. When answers pleased lim he nodded vigorously, at other answers he scratched his grey jowls quizzically. Old Paul made no suggestions himself, "for fear," explained his' secretary "of influencing developments...