Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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College President Butler next took up the Wet argument, his cracking voice making him far less eloquent on his feet than on paper. His impeccable diction and the fact that he had argued similarly at Republican gatherings for years seemed to win him the respect of the crowd. After Dr. Butler came the turn of Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Obedient to his President, he infuriated his Wet colleagues in the New York delegation by forcefully, with downward jabs of his fists, demanding acceptance of the Administration's plank...
...Amendment for the direct election of Senators superseded the constitutional provision for their selection by State Legislatures; exactly as the 16th Amendment for an income tax superseded the constitutional limitation of direct taxes based on population. The new amendment would have to provide that States that wanted to be Wet might be Wet, regardless of the 18th Amendment, but would prohibit them from legalizing the saloon. Therefore a Wet State would probably have to set up a State liquor monopoly and keep the business out of private hands for private profit. Likewise the Federal Government would reserve the power...
...power to sway delegates to unexpected results. Alfred Emanuel Smith will enter the convention, not only, as a candidate for the Presidency but also as a delegate-at-large from New York. As such the rostrum will be his for the asking. He may take it to impress his Wet views upon the delegates during the platform debate which precedes the nomination tussle. At such a tense time a speech by the "Happy Warrior," full of fire and fight, might start a stampede away from the man who called Al Smith that...
Funnyman Ed Wynn's son Frank ran aground his father's motorboat. All Wet, in the East River within sight of his Manhattan apartment; tooted his siren for two hours until police rescued...
...United States in two words," declared Premier Benito Mussolini last week to a correspondent of Baron Beaverbrook's enterprising London Daily Express. While the Englishman scribbled, Il Duce continued: "The two words are Prohibition and Lindbergh! . . . Dry America will never find herself. She must go Wet to find herself! In the meantime Europe is drifting toward disaster and Bolshevization...