Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol. He motors long distances, goes frequently to the cinema. In Canton, his home, political sentimentalists liken him to McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. He is a serious hard-working campaigner. In his current campaign he is being assailed by Negroes for his Parker vote, by Wets who favor his Wet opponent, Democratic Nominee Robert Johns Bulkley. Hard to hold is the Senate seat he now occupies. Frank Bartlette Willis died in it in 1928. Cyrus Locker was voted out of it the same year. Theodore Elijah Burton died...
...Wet press gloated. The tabloid New York Daily News screamed: MABEL WINS WINK FROM U. S. ON WINE! Explanation: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition and good friend of Director Woodcock, is counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. Fruit Industries Inc. is an affiliate of the California Grape Control Board whose members were, at the moment when Director Woodcock spoke, harvesting a bumper grape crop of 870,000 tons, representing an investment of some $300,000,000. Of this crop 450,000 tons, enough to make 67,000,000 gal. of juice, were wine grapes...
Director Woodcock, however, intended no such thing. The Wet press had misinterpreted him. He had spoken of wine-making in the home, not of the sale of grapes or grapejuice for winemaking. When fortnight ago his Bureau of Prohibition Compilation obtained figures showing that all U. S. wine grapes produced last year were made into wine, that U. S. annual wine consumption has risen to 118,329,300 gal. from 52,418,430 gal. in 1914, he spoke again. He explained that any big sale of grapes for wine-making would encounter trouble from his Bureau. He said...
...Vineyards Co., for sending "cards and advertising matter through the mails to hundreds of thousands of prospective customers guaranteeing 'fine old wine' would be provided in accordance with the Prohibition law." Observers anticipated a legal fight between a Government-subsidized industry and the Government, predicted a sweeping Wet victory on the wine question if the California jury, like the one at Baltimore, finds the "fine old wine" non-intoxicating in fact...
...newsman: "Mr. Chairman, you are regarded as liberal-minded on this matter ?to be frank, a Wet...