Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wet Upping. All five Congressmen elected last week were avowed enemies of Prohibition. Wets were happily excited at what they claimed was evidence of a growing tide against the 18th Amendment. The chairman of the House's Wet bloc jubilated: "When the 73rd Congress meets we'll have enough strength to vote the repeal of the Amendment." More realistic and practical, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment counted what looked like Wet noses in Congress, announced big gains, named names. A. A. P. A. calculation of members who would vote to submit the 18th Amendment to State Conventions or Legislatures...
...Salle Street's air throbbed with bullish rumor: Russia was definitely out of the export market; the Manchurian situation meant war and war meant a wheat shortage; U. S. farmers will cut their 1932 acreage drastically; nearly one-third of Germany's crop was ruined by wet weather...
...pilot his candidacy through the campaign. Bad luck or poor judgment characterized the President's first two choices for this prime political post. Claudius Hart Huston had to retire in near disgrace. Fussbudgety little Senator Fess of Ohio, present incumbent, is widely rated a party liability. Last week the Wet Eastern wing of the G. 0. P. renewed its cries for his removal. William Scott ("Boss") Vare, Pennsylvania's Senator-reject whose plumping for Herbert Hoover at Kansas City in 1928 gave him the nomination on the first ballot, declared: "The people are tired of Prohibition . . . the re-election...
...refores tation issue was, however, it did serve to remind people that Mr. Smith had yet to endorse the Roosevelt candidacy. The best guess was that Mr. Smith was dissatisfied with Governor Roosevelt's Prohibition stand, even suspected the latter of playing both ends against the middle to win Wet and Dry favor. Mr. Smith has vowed that the next Democratic nominee must be as Wet as he is. While Governor Roosevelt was last week getting the backing of Senator Clarence C. Dill of Washington, Mayor Cermak of Chicago was in New York hobnobbing with Tammany leaders and Mayor Frank...
...occur to improve President Hoover's chances of success: i) a turn for the better in the economic tide, with rising prices and increased trade, which would substantially dampen the "protest vote" now rampant; 2) Democratic blunders in managing the next House (see p. 12), followed by another Wet & Dry schism after the Democratic nomination...