Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow, the daughter and the wife of onetime Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, the sister of Representative Franklin William Fort? stumpspoke in the interests of their men. Candidate Frelinghuysen soon lost public interest, but the contest?gentlemanly and distinguished?between Dry Mr. Fort and Wet Mr. Morrow drew national attention. Yale's Professor Irving Fisher campaigned for Mr. Fort, Princeton's President John Grier Hibben spoke for Mr. Morrow. Beneath the high-toned surface, however, Dry leaders and Republican machine bosses, upset by the diversity of major candidates (one John A. Kelly also ran), battled...
...terms?the unexpired term of Walter Evans Edge, now Ambassador to France, and the regular long term of 1931-37. Mr. Morrow won both nominations. Democrats who will oppose him are: for the short term, Miss Thelma Parkinson, a political newcomer; for the long term, Alexander Simpson, State politician, Wet commoner...
...Republicans pleased President Hoover but were rewarded by no open endorsement when they chose Representative Wallace Humphrey White Jr., grandson and onetime secretary of the late Senator William Pierce Frye, to run for the Senate against Democrat Frank H. Haskell. Defeated Republican candidates: onetime Governor Ralph Owen Brewster, Wet Dugald Blair Dewar...
...Llewellyn Park, N. J., home after wintering in Fort Myers, Fla. ; announced he would vote for Dry Senatorial Candidate Franklin W. Fort in New Jersey's primary election, remained mum on his rubber experiments. Mrs. Edison was a member of the Women's Committee backing Wet Candidate Dwight Whitney Morrow...
...phenomenal majority collected by Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey in a Republican Senatorial election forecasts a rather busy future for the Drys. They attempted to stuff Middle Western support into the hole in the dyke but the wet Eastern pressure seems to be too much, and in addition, this same Middle Western assistance is by no means so efficient as the arms of young Dutch boys...