Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curran v. Caraway. Dry hands were laid roughly on the No. 1 Wet organization of the U. S. last week, pulling and tearing at its innards, dissecting its workings. The hands belonged to three members-Arkansas' Senator Caraway, Montana's Senator Walsh, Indiana's Senator Robinson...
Senate Lobby Committee, now engaged in investigating lobbying for and against Prohibition. The Wet organization on the operating table was the Association against the Prohibition Amendment, represented by its $25,000-per-year President Henry Hastings Curran, onetime (1923-1926) Immigration Commissioner at the Port of New York, onetime (1921) Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City. As the Lobby Committee is four-to-one Dry, it inquired into all the Association's doings, until lobbying was almost forgotten. Sarcasm, sneers, low comedy, abusive epithets and verbal horseplay featured the Committee's august deliberations...
Factual discoveries about the A. A. P. A. included the following: It claims 150,000 members, of whom about 5,000 are voluntary contributors to the Wet cause. Seven wealthy men, including three du Fonts, supply about 60% of the organization's budget. Last year A. A. P. A. spent $473-213; this year it hopes to raise $1,000,000 for the Congressional campaign. Its prime purpose is to elect Wet candidates to office. In 1928 it supported 19 nominees for the House, excluding sitting members. Two of its candidates were elected. It promotes such Wet rallies...
...conditions again prevented Harvard's baseball team from playing when the cold weather caused the game with Colgate to be cancelled yesterday. This last engagement was the second successive one to be cancelled this week, since the University of Maine contest, scheduled for Tuesday was called off because of wet grounds...
...Colgate nine comes to Cambridge today to meet the University baseball team on the Soldiers Field diamond at 4 o'clock. The Crimson has had an easy week so far with wet grounds causing the Maine game to be cancelled Tuesday and with the cold weather retiring the squad to the cage for practice yesterday...