Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hudson Thatcher as their senatorial nominee. Onetime Governor Sampson, acclaiming Nominee Thatcher as an "everlasting Dry,'' key-noted thus: "We'll replace this wobbly, uncertain, barking Barkley who a few years ago was taking the Anti-Saloon League's money to make speeches and turned Wet overnight when the Vice-Presidency was dangled before his eyes. Our nominee will beat not one Barkley but four Barkleys-the Free Trade Barkley, the Protectionist Barkley, the Dry Barkley and the Wet Barkley." Nominee Thatcher was born 62 years ago in Chicago-a fact he omits from his Congressional...
...votes Wet, drinks Wet...
...going John Garibaldi Sargent. He climbed on the Hoover bandwagon early, rode it hard and helpfully through the campaign, expected as his reward the Attorney Generalship. When that post went to another. Colonel Donovan's friends bitterly declared that President Hoover had turned him down because he was a Wet Catholic. Between Colonel Donovan and the President there is still a breach...
...Girt, N. J.. where Boss Frank Hague had massed 100,000 Democrats to hear him speak on Prohibition. Flaying the Republican plank for being "long, indirect, ambiguous, insincere, false,'' the Democratic nominee declared: "Words upon words, a dense cloud of words! . . . Senator Borah said it sounded Wet to him. President Butler said the words were Dry." Governor Roosevelt charged his opponent with using "pussycat words" in his acceptance speech and deliberately misrepresenting the Democratic position. "The difficulty under which the President labors [is] obvious," he declared, "and the reason for his use of meaningless words is clear...
...chubby young State Senator from San Francisco. Senator Shortridge lately deserted his President and his platform by declaring against the World Court. This flipflop won him favor with the Hearst Press, but cost him the friendly feeling of many a regular party leader. On Prohibition the Senator wooed the Wets with talk of Resubmission, then the Drys with a declaration against Repeal. Most likely beneficiary of these Shortridgean straddles is Mr. Tubbs who stands to gain "regular" votes on the World Court, Wet votes on his outright Repeal plank. Energetic Candidate Tubbs has, during his canvass, startled many a back...