Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Massachusetts. By a scant 7,600 votes William Morgan Butler, dry onetime Senator, won the Republican Senatorial nomination over his chief rival Eben S. Draper, Wet. Nominee Butler, old friend of Calvin Coolidge, had the support of the Old Guard, Candidate Draper of the Young Guard. The total Wet Republican vote in the state was some 15,000 more than that by which Nominee Butler won. Without difficulty was Republican Governor Frank Gilman Allen renominated just a few hours before his wife bore him a daughter...
Because Massachusetts favored Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, because it goes Wet in liquor polls, the Democratic primary was crowded. The leading Boston Irish candidate for Senator, James F. O'Connell, and for Governor, John F. Fitzgerald, fell ill and retired from the contest but not in time to get their names off the ballot. Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley called for their nomination on an "all-green ticket" anyway, suggested that the Democratic state committee could later make substitutions for the November election. This political trick left Democratic voters cold. Instead they formed an "all-Yankee" ticket...
...York. Defeated for renomination in the Lockport (40th) district by Wet Walter G. Andrews was dry Republican Representative Stephen Wallace Dempsey whose 15 years house service had raised him to chairman of the Rivers & Harbors Committee. Both parties nominated Wets for the 25th district (Westchester) seat voluntarily vacated by Dry Republican Representative Jonathan Mayhew Wainright...
Delaware. Democrats at Dover by a vote of 115 to 95 nominated Thomas < Francis Bayard, Wet, for the Senate over Josiah Marvel, new president of the American Bar Association (TIME, Sept.1). Nominee Bayard's father, Thomas Francis Bayard Sr., his grandfather James Asheton Bayard Jr. and his greatgrand-father James Asheton Bayard Sr. all at different times represented Delaware in the Senate. So did Nominee Bayard (1923-29). His Republican opponent: Dry Senator Daniel O. Hastings. Delaware's single Democratic Congressional nominee: John P. Le Fevre...
About the time Drys were joyfully celebrating the tenth anniversary of constitutional Prohibition last winter (TIME, Jan. 27) a new and uncharted groundswell of Wet sentiment became discernible to political mariners throughout the land. To many it seemed to be a distinct tide change. How high it would flow and what channels it would alter no man knew. Wet militancy increased. Prohibition speculation again became fashionable. A Senate investigating committee disclosed the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment as a husky adult organization, amply financed and operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary...