Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their evidence to the House Judiciary Committee against pending resolutions to repeal the 18th Amendment. Like everyone else, they knew the resolutions had only the remotest chance of passage, but the committee hearings had put them in a position where they had to rebut the voluminous testimony of 45 Wet witnesses piled up before the committee (TIME, March...
...Wets' chief attack on Prohibition had been that it was no benefit to industry and business, that no part of Prosperity was attributable to its influence. To combat this view was the prime purpose of Dry witnesses. In their zeal they went to what seemed unfair lengths by a counter charge that the Wets favored a return of the saloon. Hardly a Wet witness had appeared before the committee who had not specifically, emphatically, disowned the saloon as a liquor institution...
Statistics. Deprived of the more dramatic sorts of testimony they had used to bring in Prohibition, the Drys presented great masses of statistics to make their points. Over and over again the authenticity of these figures was indecisively wrangled by Dry witnesses and Wet committee members...
...hostesses (TIME, July 1). Said she: " I found that these society women regarded liquor drinking at private gatherings as an unutterable nuisance. ... A favorite theme was that of the expense and the great disgrace of maintaining relations with bootleggers." Mrs. Strawbridge declared she received 1,337 responses opposing wet social gatherings, 247 in favor of maintaining them...
...drinks 60 gal. He argued that grains which once went into liquor now make breakfast foods, that corn is higher in value now than before 1920, that the price of grapes has increased. Mr. Taber painted farm conditions in such cheerful colors that he seemed sorely embarrassed when a Wet committee member produced a statement of his last April when he was seeking farm relief. Then he had told an entirely different story of "deplorable conditions" among U.S. farmers...