Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME for July 7 I believe your correspondent is in error in stating that if New Jersey Republicans adopt a Wet platform they will be the first group of party to repudiate the 18th Amendment...
Albert John Galen, 54, onetime cowpuncher, Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court, won the Republican nomination for the Senate over Oliver Hazard Perry ("One Half Pint") Shelley, one-time Montana Prohibition Administrator, Red Lodge publisher. Like Senator Walsh, Nominee Galen is a Roman Catholic. Unlike him, he is Wet...
Democratic Representative John Mor?gan Evans, 67, Dry, held a very narrow lead for renomination over John Patrick Monaghan, 25, Wet, in the First Congressional District. Renominated in the Second Congressional District was Re- publican Representative Scott Leavitt who will face Tom Stout, Democrat, in the November election...
...even with the exclusion of Grocer Norris, the Republican senatorial contest remained freakish. Candidate of the Old Guard against Senator Norris was State Treasurer William M. Stebbins. Running also was Aaron Reed, 85, "sopping wet," white-bearded Madison lawyer who denounced Senator Norris as "the Great Objector, the stumbling block in the way of efficient legislation...
...trenches more than 4 hours. After the War he worked on the London Daily News, then retired to a workman's cottage in Devonshire to learn to write. Other books: The Dream of Fail-Women, The Lone Swallows, Sun Brothers, The Old Stag, Tarka the Otter, The Pathway, The Wet Flanders Plain, Dandelion Days...