Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large interest in Link-Belt Co. Longtime friend of Mayor-elect Moore, Director Dodge is extremely air-minded. He flew in one of the Wright Brothers' planes in 1912. He. his son and his daughter all hold commercial pilot licenses, a U. S. family record. Politically liberal, actively Wet, Director Dodge promised upon taking office: "We shall use our utmost endeavors to enforce all laws without stressing one to the neglect of others. ... I am absolutely opposed to all forms of lawlessness. This includes lawlessness within the law. It applies also to the preservation of the civil rights...
...polling day no speeches and no posters of any sort were permitted. Previously Finns favoring continuance of Prohibition had postered the city with statements that "those who vote wet will be punished on the day of judgment." On election morn, since the Government had forbidden both Drys and Wets to distribute handbills, the Drys laid upon every doorstep in Helsinki a copy of a Dry newspaper ap-pealing editorially for support of Prohibition. In not a single Helsinki district, however, was a Dry majority polled...
Returns from the rural districts, reputed strongholds of Prohibition, were slow coming in. But when a 37-to-1 Wet majority was recorded, with two-thirds of the votes in. Minister of Justice T. O. Kivimaki said: "Reason has conquered." Then he began to draft a Government bill for State Liquor Control. The electorate had understood from the first that such a bill would be drawn up should Prohibition fail to win. Technically, however, votes were cast...
...picture also has an element which is almost impossible to explain?an element of spontaneity and charm. Typical shot: Heather having fun with a musical bottle which tinkles when she lifts it. Janet Gaynor's first noticeable role in the cinema was that of a girl who got wet in The Johnstown Flood. Before that she had been a clerk in a San Francisco lawyer's office, a public school student in the dozen or more cities where her stepfather Harry C. Jones ("Jonesy" to her) plied his trade of electrician. Now in Europe, Cinemactress Gaynor generally prefers Honolulu...
Fresco painting is an untransportable art. Frescoes are part of a wall. They are painted on wet plaster with water color paints. So that they could be moved into the gallery at all, these latest Rivera murals were constructed in steel frames. Even so they had to be set up. plastered and painted in the Heckscher Building itself. Rivera arrived in New York a month ago with his faithful plasterer Ramon Alva, his pretty little Mexican wife, the former Frieda Kahlo, and has been painting his exhibition ten hours a day. only stopping to drink great quantities of milk...