Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause. This autumn the organization faces its first big test, for which the Roslyn meeting, last week, was a prelude. There are 435 Representatives, 33 Senators, one President and one Vice President to be campaigned for or against. It takes money to campaign, as Mrs. Sabin's Wet sisterhood well knows. National headquarters of W. O. N. P. R. seldom has more than a three-month supply of it on hand, but the group is happily supplied with rich husbands. If a Democratic Wet majority is returned to Congress and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House...
...delegates to a Constitutional convention. State laws would determine the apportionment of representation at these conventions, the like of which have never been held in U. S. history, all Constitutional amendments heretofore having been ratified by the Legislatures, at Congress' direction. Thus a fresh series of local Wet-Dry fights must be fought since Wets consider that present apportionments of representation in many Legislatures vastly favor the rural (normally Dry) populace, and the proposed conventions are to be, the national parties agree, "truly representative...
...Morrison, North Carolina Democrat, as he entered last week's run-off primary to hold his seat in Washington. When the votes were counted, it was found that "Cam" Morrison, oldtime party warhorse, typical rural political vegetable, was indeed a dead Dry and that North Carolina had gone Wet by almost two votes...
...State where Prohibition was making a strange new political brew. The South Carolina delegation last week startled the Democratic Convention by voting for Repeal. In August, South Carolina will hold a Democratic primary for the Senate nomination at which the electorate will have its first real chance to vote Wet or Dry. Senator Ellison Durant Smith, a personal Dry stumping for renomination, stands shyly by the Chicago convention's plank. Ashton H. Williams of Florence is aggressively championing Repeal. Leon Harris of Anderson keeps mum on liquor. Coleman Livingston Blease, a Wet-drinking Dry trying to get back into...
While Prohibition was passing its second milestone within two weeks at Chicago, Wall Street experienced a flurry in the shares of companies most likely to be benefited by a change in the law. The group of stocks Wall Street has come to call the "Wet Shares" includes Owens-Illinois Glass Co., National Distillers Products, American Commercial Alcohol, Crown Cork & Seal, Park & Tilford. Neatly timed to coincide with the Wet flurry was a $1,000,000 offering of shares in a brewery, the first sale of a brewery stock since...