Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Wet Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia asked Mr. Ford to fit together two statements. Ford statement No. 1 (in the September Pictorial Review) : "If booze ever comes back to the U. S., I am through with manufacturing. I would not be bothered with the problem of handling over 200,000 men and trying to pay them wages which the saloons would take away from them." Ford statement No. 2 (in the September Forbes Magazine) : "The tractors have already begun to come from Ireland and they are better than we have made here...
...18th Amendment that the old earnestness, ardor and oratory of their cause had not diminished in the decade since it was put into the Constitution. So vehement were their pleadings that an uninformed foreigner, conducted into the hearings, might well have imagined that the committee favored the pending wet bills and that the dry witnesses were striving to change their views...
...Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement, who leveled her lorgnette imperiously at the committee to announce that her organization represented 30 nationwide groups with a membership of 12,000,000 women.* She insisted on speaking without interruption by committee members. When New York's Wet Congressman LaGuardia tried to break in upon her for crossexamination, he was hissed by women spectators. After her own appeal, Mrs. Peabody sat down in the front row to coach other Dry witnesses with "Stick to your statement," "Don't answer that," "Don't give any names." Her asides, discovered...
...Richard Aldrich, New York socialite, was introduced as "a woman of leisure." Said she: "The contention of the wet and noisy minority is only the voicing of self-indulgence. ... Its arguments appear very childish. . . . The statement that Prohibition has worked no changes in railroad discipline is quite childish. . . . The wet minority of leisure, occupied in establishing social bootlegging, is now alarmed lest the lives of its illegal employes be in danger. Hosts and hostesses have only to be less childish and there will be an end to the strange alliance between liquor and ladies...
...Wet critics disputed this figure, contended that such memberships overlap...