Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Literary Digest's poll, for this week, records 43 states out of 44 in the wet column, with over two million votes cast. Twenty-three of these states are for complete repeal, and twenty for modification...
...vote at Albany may be dismissed by many as too sectional to be significant. But it should not be overlooked that Republican sentiment in the Legislature is gradually swinging to the wet side, a phenomenon that had previously been considered more than improbable...
...Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Prohibition, Temperance & Public Morals, Canon William Sheafe Chase of the International Reform Federation, and Eugene L. Crawford of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. These witnesses were spared the ordeal of direct testimony and cross-examination by Wet committee members, when Chairman Graham, to save time, adjourned the hearing and permitted the witnesses to file prepared statements. New York's Wet Congressman La Guardia wailed his disappointment: "And here I've been waiting ten years for a chance to examine these witnesses...
...hours of violent political horseplay followed. The sum of Mr. Raskob's testimony: he had contributed $66,000 to the Wet association; he was ignorant of its detailed operations and expenditures; he had never lobbied; he had carefully kept separate his personal position on Prohibition and the position of his party...
...political impressions Senator Robinson tried to piece together from Mr. Raskob's testimony: 1) money the Democratic chairman gave the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment was used to elect Wet Republicans, to oppose Dry Democrats; 2) the Democratic chairman "threw his money to the four winds" in his opposition to Prohibition...