Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virginia. Without opposition Democratic Senator Carter Glass was renominated, assured of reelection. In the Norfolk (2nd) Congressional District, Joseph T. Deal, Wet, won the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Representative Menalcus Lankford who ousted him from his House seat in the 1928 anti-Smith turnover. In the Danville (5th) District Democratic Representative Joseph Whitehead was beaten for renomination by Thomas Burch on the charge that he was "too cold" toward the party's national ticket two years ago. In the Alexandria (8th) District Judge Howard Smith won the Democratic nomination over State Senator Frank L. Ball...
...Standing on the deck of his racing yacht Britannia, puffing cigarets in wet and squally weather His Majesty King George won his 200th and 201st yacht races last week at Cowes, Isle of Wight. It was a bad week for other yachtsmen at Cowes. Lucilla, smart 12-metre yacht, was crashed into by the big cutter Lulworth...
Significance. Washington Republicans put Senator Wesley Jones (coauthor of the Five & Ten law) between a political devil and a deep sea of wet voters...
...still the Wet cry of "sumptuary legislation," a dozen potent Drys representing the Anti-Saloon League, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals and the Committee of One Thousand last week issued a joint declaration of policy through the Christian Herald...
Dugald B. Dewar, Portland (Me.) broker, unsuccessful Wet candidate in June for the Republican senatorial nomination, was arrested in South Portland for driving while intoxicated. Sentence: 60 days (out on $1,000 bail...