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Word: wetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Money. With $1 dues from each member, the Crusaders possess at least $100,-000 with which to campaign for Wet Congressional candidates this autumn.*/Part of the crusade will be soliciting funds From wealthy Wets throughout the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Crusade | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

Taking the relation of poverty to drink, Dr. Cabot claimed, "The social workers of the United States know more about the poverty question than any other group and not one out of one thousand of these workers is wet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "POVERTY DECREASED UNDER PROHIBITION," SAYS R. C. CABOT | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

...That's unfortunate. I don't think I'm a Wet. You might better say?moist. ... If Prohibition proves unenforceable, this Commission should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unborn Blossom | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...elephant suddenly turned upon the camel. The camel balked. Lieut. Governor Griswold lost his grip, pitched head-over-heels to the ground. The crowd cheered wildly. Declared Lieut. Governor Griswold as he brushed himself off: "I knew I should never have anything to do with a camel." (Nevada is Wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: G. O. Parade | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...breach which seriously unsettled the certainty that Pennsylvania, as it has done for the last 39 years, would elect a Republican governor in November. They were: 1) longstanding hostility be tween Nominee Pinchot and Boss Vare, whose candidate for governor Mr. Pincho' defeated in the primary; 2) the Wet appeal of Nominee Hemphill in Republican urban districts; 3) the apprehension of Big Business at Nominee Pinchot's "radical" program of industrial and utility regulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pinchot v. G. O. P. | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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