Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robinson, Montana's Walsh, Virginia's Glass are the other three). He was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee (1913-19) which wrote the Underwood-Simmons Bern. Local bank failures last year caused him serious financial loss. In 1928 his Dry Protestant efforts turned North Carolina against Wet Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith. A bitter hater, he still flaunts his opposition to the Tammany wing of his party, balks at reconciliation. This year he is a candidate for reelection to the Senate. Against him in the June primary are younger men and forces who would punish...
...have tried to avoid the words 'wet' and 'dry.' Men labeled wet may be as much opposed to the saloon as men labeled dry. The saloon must not come back. The people of the U. S. are well...
...Jersey. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Republican senatorial candidate against Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen in the June 17 primary, sat in his Englewood home pondering Prohibition, preparing his first campaign speech for delivery this week at Newark, in which he was expected to declare either Wet or Dry. Should Mr. Morrow go Wet like Mr. Frelinghuysen, Drys hoped they could obtain a candidate to their liking in the person of Representative Franklin Fort, good Hoover friend, onetime secretary of the Republican National Committee...
...First Dry to the witness stand was Edwin Cornell Jameson, president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co., director of many another potent company, business partner of New Jersey's Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (this year a Wet candidate for the Senate). Mr. Jameson was the largest individual contributor ($172,800) to the Hoover campaign (TIME, April 28). Squarejawed, tightlipped, with a big dimple in his chin, Mr. Jameson has grey-fringed black hair, a close-cropped black mustache, wears sparkling pince-nez before placid grey eyes. Spruce and good looking, he refused to be photographed because, he said...
...Born of God." Wisconsin Wet Senator Blaine found a passage in a recent speech in which Dr. McBride had said: "The Anti-Saloon League was born...