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Word: wetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida. The couple, therefore, is going to Florida. Some time ago Al Capone heard there was a dry law there. He, too, made tracks for Florida. Mrs. Peabody ought to be happy in that state. The politicians are dry and the citizens are quite wet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOLLOW THE SWALLOW | 11/8/1930 | See Source »

Although it is too early to make any prediction on the subject, Professor Hart said that he believed it was not at all impossible that a third party, in support of the Eighteenth Amendment, would appear, in the most unlikely event of the Republicans adopting a wet platform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT WILL BE DEMOCRATIC CHOICE IN 1932 SAYS HART | 11/7/1930 | See Source »

That the country is in the trough of a moral as well as business depression is clearly shown by the extremely heavy wet vote cast at the polls throughout the nation last Tuesday according to the following article entitled "The Recession" written for the Crimson by Thomas N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORAL DEPRESSION IS SHOWN BY WET VOTE SAYS CARVER | 11/6/1930 | See Source »

...Local prohibition, under local option, has had the same story. A town or county will go dry, then wet, and then dry again. But in the long run more go dry than wet, and more and more stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORAL DEPRESSION IS SHOWN BY WET VOTE SAYS CARVER | 11/6/1930 | See Source »

Montana. Dry Democratic Senator Thomas James Walsh was running for reelection on campaign cash supplied by John Jacob Raskob as Democratic chairman. Wet Republican Nominee Albert John Galen was opposing him on campaign cash supplied by John Jacob Raskob as chief contributor to the Association Against the 18th Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Shadow of the Polls | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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