Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shock of last week's Wet revolt at the polls made itself felt in the referenda of eleven states, as follows...
...Fred H. Brown, onetime Governor, new Public Service Commissioner. The Brown attack: "Moses is a hireling of the power interests. The Insulls and others paid Moses' campaign expenses. He hasn't been a square-shooter in New Hampshire politics in a generation. He votes dry and drinks wet, pats the War veteran on the back with one hand and cuts his throat with the other." Husky Senator-elect Brown chews Navy cut plug, makes a thundering speech...
Eight hundred guests of the French Line, including the President of France and Mme Lebrun, had come by special train from Paris. If possible they must not get wet...
Finally, are you Wet like Senator Bingham, or Dry like Mr. Curtis, or both like Mr. Hoover...
...almost forgotten woman Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, plenty of "What happened? . . . Let's take a look. . . . Let us go back. . . ." An Al Smith occasion and an Al Smith speech in less than his most thoughtful vein, it accomplished one thing for his party: claiming credit for the Democratic wet plank, he placed it squarely against the Republican wet-&-dry one, left the way open for Governor Roosevelt, at Baltimore, to carry...