Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly be expected to find Florida still safe for the hundred percenter and the chocolate parfait, since Mr. Capone and his boys have a long established branch of their enterprise there. And India, where the cause has found its latest converts, is a long way. Besides, the ocean is wet...
Legislation. Election results plus a mounting Federal deficit have given a great impetus to the beer-for-revenue drive. An attempt to modify the Volstead Act will be made early in the coming short session of the 72nd Congress. Heretofore the highest Wet vote in the House has been 187. Wets claim, however, that enough Dry members were "converted" during the campaign to produce 237 votes, a majority of 19. after Dec. 5. Never more than 26 sitting Senators have voted Wet. But here again sufficient conversions are claimed to produce the 49 majority. Senate Drys who have lately swung...
...glass return? Few brewers were sure. The distribution problem still offers the greatest conflict of public and private opinion. As deep-rooted as ever is dread of the saloon. Crusader Fred Clark holds firmly to his organization's purpose of "taking profit out of liquor distribution." Such an able Wet as Representative-elect Wadsworth of New York fears that Repeal, the ultimate goal, might be retarded by a reckless flood of beer...
California grape growers rejoiced when the State joined the Wet parade, repealed the Wright Enforcement...
Frenchmen's eyes popped as Mumm's Champagne shares, which stood at 85 (francs) on the Paris Bourse last spring, spurted from 180 to 226 francs when Wet Mr. Roosevelt definitely...