Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania, the retirement of Dry Representative Watres in the nth District resulted in the nomination of a sure Wet successor. Gain...
Kinds of Dryness. Over the fence are the Drys, as heterogeneous a group as the Wets. Their one common ground is approval of the 18th Amendment. A minority are Drys by conviction, a majority by political expediency. Their ranks range from the Constitutional Dryness of Idaho's Senator Borah through the drinking Dryness of South Carolina's Senator Blease to the cynically fickle Dryness of New Hampshire's Senator Moses. Utah's Senator Smoot represents the religious Dry, Ohio's Senator Fess the Wet turned Dry who is ready to turn Wet again if necessary to hold his job. Washington...
...ousted by a Wet nominee. Gain...
...York, Dry Congressman Dempsey was defeated by a Wet in the 40th District. Two Wets were nominated in the 25th District when Dry Representative Wainwright retired. Representative Fish shifted to beer while Representative Hancock (35th District) and Cooke (41st District) changed from Dry to Wet to save their political skins in the primary. Gain...
...Ohio, Dry Representative Chalmers (gth District) was beaten by Wet Republican White while the Democratic Nominee was also Wet. Gain...