Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phillips has the vigorous backing of the A. A. P. A. which has lately run its Pennsylvania membership up from 1,000 to 40,000. He is making a loud, strenuous campaign, has sent cars equipped with loudspeakers all over the State to broadcast his Wet appeal...
Wisconsin's Wet Senator John James Blaine, glancing over the reports, also protested against their inclusion in the record until the full lobby committee had passed on them, induced Senator Robinson to hold them up temporarily. Said...
...Wet complaints began to take shape in the Senate corridors against the Lobby Committee's obvious Dry bias. The committee was accused of stalling its inquiry of Wet organizations to give Dry organizations time to strip their letter files of all incriminating documents...
...Governor of Pennsylvania in this month's primary. A onetime Congressman who has grown rich in public utilities (oil and coal), he is large, rotund, married, father of five. His hair is grey, his face florid, his manner genial and approachable. He is running as an out-&-out Wet for the repeal of his State's enforcement act. Opposing him are Gifford Pinchot, a crusading Dry, and Francis Shunk Brown supported by both the Mellon and Vare factions of the G. O. P. Mr. Brown has declared for a Prohibition referendum, is classed as a political weasler on this issue...
...political prophets concede Mr. Phillips a chance of nomination. Yet he is a prime primary factor because he may draw from Mr. Brown, the regular candidate, enough votes to give Mr. Pinchot the nomination. The great Pennsylvania question: will Wet voters put party above Prohibition? In the House Pennsylvania's scholarly and aristocratic Congressman, James Montgomery Beck, is a most eloquent Wet. In politics he is a part of Boss Vare's Philadelphia machine. Lately he appealed to voters to support Mr. Brown, who had weasled on Prohibition, rather than Mr. Phillips who stood with him on this issue...