Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women laid down the law to President Hoover at the White House last week. They represented the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody marched them into the executive offices. Mrs. Peabody is so Dry she moved out of Massachusetts when that State went Wet (TIME, Nov. 17, 1930). President Hoover shook hands with his callers, stood silently before his desk while Mrs. Peabody took the floor. She read him quotations from his own past speeches and remarks in which he endorsed Prohibition. She demanded more rigid enforcement. She suggested that U. S. Ambassadors...
With 187 Congressmen on record as Wet (TIME, March 21) and the nation economically ailing, antiProhibitionists have been pointing with new emphasis and hope to drink as a source of revenue and employment. Last week the economic argument for Prohibition reform had gathered enough momentum to cause plans for monster "beer parades" throughout the land, and three famed Drys came out in favor of resubmission of Prohibition to the people...
Last week newshawks flocked about the Small home in Kankakee. Len Small had won his nomination. Though he got only 36% of the G. O. P. primary vote, he managed to nose out four other candidates. As a Wet, he handily defeated a weasler, one Omer N. Custer, whom repeal-vetoing Governor Louis Emmerson had selected as his successor. Nominee Small declaimed: "I accept the responsibility of leading the people in their battle against the forces of wealth, greed and privilege back to prosperity...
...North Shore suburban strip from Chicago to the Wisconsin line. Last week the Republican primary turned Mr. Chindblom out of office and nominated in his stead James Simpson Jr.. polite 27-year-old son of Marshall Field's board chairman (TIME, Oct. 26). Nominated as a Wet, Junior Simpson will face a Wet Democrat in the election. The W. C. T. U. whose home, Evanston, is in the Simpson district, grieved...
Professor Carver, who has been nominated for election as a delegate to the convention, is a firm supporter of Hoover, but on a dry platform. He believes that a wet plank would be disastrous to Hoover, either forcing him to refuse to run, or insuring his defeat by separating the candidate from his platform. "This would so antagonize the western states already suspicious of the supposed Republican alliance with big business", said Professor Carver", that it would be fatal to the Republican party. This same mistake was made by the Whig Party in 1852", he continued, "when it permitted...