Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes Dry, drinks Wet...
Your quiet, businesslike survey and summary of the "Effects of a Groundswell" is one of the best pieces of journalism I have ever seen (TIME, Sept. 29). I congratulate you for putting (as usual) your finger upon the crucial point in the Wet-Dry excitement. Someone once said: "Congress is always ten years behind public opinion." Yet nothing can be done about anything in this country before public attention is focused upon Congress to make it become selfconscious. . . . If the above aphorism is still accurate, you may have five or six more opportunities to chart the progress of the "Groundswell...
...have just seen your issue of Sept. 29 and on p. 17 I find this statement: "Ohio's Senator Fess the Wet turned Dry who is ready to turn Wet again if necessary to hold...
...throughout the land hoped hard that these Presidential addresses would help them in their campaigns. ¶Because the president cancelled both his press conferences last week without explanation, newsmen could not ask him what he thought of the fact that the New York G. O. P. had gone solidly Wet...
...Albany convention. No credit was claimed even for the President's appointment of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. When the keynoting Secretary mentioned the fine work of Dwight Whitney Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico, the delegates applauded long and loud. Mr. Morrow is a thoroughgoing Republican Wet and the New Yorkers were about to demand repeal of the 18th Amendment. Likewise Statesman Stimson had very little to say about government economy, because Federal expenditures have increased to offset unemployment. The World Court was disposed of in 15 words. Democratic critics, of course, could pick holes...