Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of April 28, there occurs on p. 15 the statement that the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment ''finances such Wet speakers as Maryland's Governor Ritchie." The reference, of course, is to testimony before the Senate Lobby Committee that this Association contributed to the expenses of a meeting which I addressed in Boston last December, and which, I believe, was held under the auspices of the Liberal Civic League. That is a matter about which I have no knowledge, but the inference from the statement is that the Association Against Prohibition has in some...
...Hoover's Cabinet believe personally that Prohibition is a failure. . . . Of course they are not going to help us but it is rather heartening. . . . The six I had in mind-Mr. Stimson [Secretary of State] who had just come from the Philippines where the country is Wet, Mr. Davis [Secretary of Labor] who in a published book said that the matter of liquor for men who worked in high temperatures ought to be changed. Mr. Lament [Secretary of Commerce] who had been one of the directors of our association, Mr. Mellon [Secretary of the Treasury] who is certainly counted...
Boston's police are directed by state, not city, officials. In February, the Massachusetts House of Representatives (accused of Wet parties in the Liggett article) voted to have State Attorney General Joseph E. Warner investigate the Garrett case. Last week to the legislature, and to Governor Frank G. Allen, the attorney general made his report. Verified and even expanded were Writer Liggett's charges and suspicions about Patrolman Garrett. Instead of suppressing bawdy houses, he sold them milk from his half-bootlegger-owned stock farm. Instead of raiding liquor joints, he ran a racket in them. Proprietors...
Prohibition was a no less troublesome problem for Mr. Morrow, because his chief adversary in the primary, Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, last week flopped from Dry to Wet. If Mr. Morrow should weasle on this issue out of deference to President Hoover's policy, Mr. Morrow knew that he would put himself at a distinct political disadvantage at home...
...arrogant, more cruel foe than Kaiserism and break the shackles that enslaved a nation?the tyranny of intemperance, the despotism of drink." It was still as a Dry that he was retired from the Senate in 1923 by Edward Irving Edwards, Democrat, who claimed to be (and was) "as wet as the Atlantic Ocean...