Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long have Drys been annoyed by glib references to the Canadian liquor sale system as an ideal solution of the problem of Prohibition. Again and again was the House Judiciary Committee at its hearings on null of the 18th Amendment besought by Wet witnesses to observe the virtues of what Canada has done...
...take U. S. Wets two minutes to look up Mr. Drury's political record, to brand him a professional Prohibitor. As a United Farmer, he formed an Ontario Government in 1919. In 1923 his Dry Government was overwhelmingly defeated by the Wet Conservatives. In last year's Ontario election the Conservatives gained 92 out of the 112 local parliament seats...
Neatly timed was last week's announcement by the Senate Lobby Committee that it was ready to investigate the activities of Wet and Dry organizations now working in Washington to influence legislation. These lobbies have been largely responsible for assembling witnesses and stage-managing the House Judiciary Committee hearings. The first Senate Lobby Committee witness will be Massachusetts' bearded Congressman George Holden Tinkham who has a mass of complaints to file against the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals...
Where the Wet-and-Dry lobby investigation will lead, how deeply below the surface it will cut, how much light or heat it will generate depends largely upon the interest, vigor and ardor of the Senate's five lobby chasers, one Wet (Wisconsin's Senator Elaine) and four Drys (Senators Caraway of Arkansas, Robinson of Indiana, Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana...
Daniel Calhoun Roper, South Carolina Democrat, under whom, as President Wilson's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, national Prohibition enforcement began. Loud have been Wet pleas for a U. S. liquor dispensary system. Only in South Carolina from 1893 to 1907 was such a system ever attempted on a large scale. It was Mr. Roper who, as a State legislator, sponsored the bill creating it. To the Judiciary Committee Mr. Roper recited the history of that liquor experiment in his State, described the "whiskey rebellion" at Darlington, the bootlegging, graft and corruption which finally...