Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...queried, 157 are politically Dry, 43 Wet. If free to vote as they believed, 61 would stay Dry, 70 would favor modification of the Volstead Act, 69 would support repeal of the 18th Amendment. If Modification were eliminated, 120 would privately favor Repeal. As- suming an actual vote in Congress, however, with political considerations controlling, Repeal would get only 64 out of 200 votes and Modification...
...opposed to 162 standpat Drys. But the same method of calculation shows that Modification in a real test would poll less than 225 votes. Therefore among the 369 privately for a Change there are more than 150 Senators and Representatives who vote Dry and think, if not drink, Wet...
Ever since the National Commission on Law Observance & Law Enforcement issued its Prohibition report in January, 72-year-old Chairman George Woodward Wickersham has been hounded for an explanation of how the Commission's Wet majority reached Dry conclusions. Last week Chairman Wickersham journeyed to Boston where in an address to the Chamber of Commerce he made his first public comment on his report. Excerpts...
...publication was met with an outburst of hostile criticism. . . . Curiously enough the most abusive articles came almost exclusively from the Wet press. I say curiously because I should have thought the Wets would have derived more encouragement from the report and the separate statements of the commissioners than the Drys. ... In the past there has been much well-founded complaint of the extreme intolerance of the Prohibitionists. This peculiar characteristic of late appears to have been appropriated by their opponents. . . . Apparently a large body of antiProhibitionists expected the Commission to find a way for them to secure liquor with ease...
...Shadows Eastward." Most dramatic episode occurred when 69-year-old Senator Norris passed Progressive leadership over to 36-year-old Senator "Young Bob" La Follette. His deep-set blue eyes wet with emotion, Senator Norris declared: "I am drawing near the place where the setting sun casts its shadows eastward. My time to pass over the river will come at no very distant day. [Cries of "No! No!" from the audience.] But when I pass on I would like to do so with the realization that the banner of civic rights will be taken up by young men who will...