Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition poll conducted by the Literary Digest, opinion-collecting weekly, grew top heavy last week with Wet votes. More than two million ballots were tabulated as follows...
...Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp Wet-&-Dry controversy. The Wet complaint: their vote had been split between Modification and Repeal, their real strength confused and diminished. The Drys raged more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots had been sent to men than to women; 3) by some inexplicable divination on the part of the poll managers, Wet families had received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote...
...Digest office, however, would not reveal whether Robert J. Cuddihy. able, amiable, Roman Catholic vice president of Funk & Wagnalls, actual publisher of the Digest and sponsor for its poll, was personally Wet...
With not a vote visibly changed the House Judiciary Committee last week wound up its Wet-&-Dry hearings. Its members had patiently heard in 16 days almost one million words from 60 Wet, 65 Dry witnesses. Wets will be given a brief rebuttal period, with the Drys making an even briefer surrebuttal. The evidence, which has cost the U. S. $5,000 to take down and print, leaves the Wets still wet, the Drys still dry. As everyone knew when the hearings began in February, no changes in the law will be recommended by the committee...
...discrediting Mr. Huston. Indiana's Republican Senator Arthur Raymond Robinson, a lobby chaser, a Huston friend, announced his intention of summoning Mr. Raskob before the same committee and interrogating him sharply as to his contributions to the association against the 18th Amendment and his activities in behalf of Wet legislation. For months the Democratic hue and cry against Mr. Raskob as a Wet Catholic has been quiescent. Party leaders have tried to forget Prohibition, to weld the wings of Democracy together again for the 1930 campaign. Shrewd Republican politicians saw the advantages in breaking the rival party once more...