Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Hoover made an announcement which, could he have made it before he was elected, would have given him 451 electoral votes instead of his recorded 444. By it the big Wet cities gained voting power over Dry rural communities. By it, wide cuts were made in the Congressional representation of farm States. Many a State had to be redistricted...
With the G. O. P. splitting on Prohibition, with the crest of a Wet groundswell growing weekly higher and more apparent, the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, last week girded themselves for two years of action more militant than ever...
...Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League announced that his organization would raise $5,000,000 to spend during the coming year-$3,500,000 more than it spent last year. He also hinted that a "committee of 15 industrialists" might be formed to match the prestige of the Wet du Ponts and John Jacob Raskob. He published a list of 25 businessmen "determined that the Dry cause shall have the fair trial which it merits." Most notable name on this list: H. W. Hoover (no kin), vacuum cleaner man of North Canton, Ohio. Other names: Senator Arthur Capper...
...Wet Bloc. Democratic Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, long leader of the small group of avowed Wets in the House, saw his opportunity in the split which Chairman Fess, in trying to avert, had created. Rushing to Washington, Congressman Linthicum indited invitations to all 71st House members to attend a Wet Bloc organization meeting early in December. Of Chairman Fess's statement he said: "It means a Demo cratic victory beyond a doubt." Mr. Linthicum put Repeal above party, insisting: "Regardless of party platforms, the fight to elect Wet members . . . will continue. . . . We have just begun to fight." Sage...
...passage of the 18th Amendment. The plot is further flavored by a love affair between the children of the two publicans and by the entrance of hijackers. It ends happily. For folk who enjoy anti-Prohibition propaganda on the stage, apothegms such as "The dry law is all wet" will prove appealing. A very nice, light lager was on draught in the lobby on the opening night...