Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...print a story that Mrs. Roosevelt told in Washington one night last week. Addressing a banquet of Community Chest leaders at the Mayflower Hotel she declared: "I thought of a woman I had seen just after her child died. The child had died because it slept in a cold, wet bed. It had had to sleep in that bed because the family had been evicted from its home. The mother told the sheriff that her child was sick. He said to her: "I'm not here to nurse your god-damned kids.' " That morning on the White House...
...Next State to vote was Maine which went Dry 75 years ago. The State Supreme Court had ruled that delegates must be chosen by counties, must sit as a deliberative assembly unbound by the sentiment of the State as reflected in its total popular vote. With no Wet or Dry labels on the ballots, voters were confronted with a maze of names from which they had to pick men who in the preceding campaign had indicated their position on the Repeal question. But most Maine voters had been provided with lists of bona fide Wet or Dry delegates...
Repeal rounded the two-thirds mark without a break in its stride last week when Washington became the 24th State to approve the 21st Amendment. Voting by legislative districts, the State chose 95 Wet delegates, four Dry ones to its ratification convention in October. The popular vote...
...served in nearly every department of the business. Another change followed: T. George Lee became simply T. G. Lee and took up a tough job. He did more than stare down his nose at subordinates and say, as he liked to, "You're all wet." In his first report to stockholders he had to report a $2,682,000 operating deficit, but he went in for economy. For 1932 with sales only two-thirds as great as the year before, he was able to show $9,255,000 in operating...
...arid her husband Jim. The Roosevelt machine functioned with quiet efficiency on orders from Washington and Postmaster General Farley; theme: "The good old doctrine of States' Rights, so dear to the hearts of all Texans." Vice President Garner quit fishing long enough to announce that he was voting Wet...