Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emerging from the White House, Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, declared: "There is very strong agitation in favor of a Wet plank of some kind among Republicans. The party will have to adopt some kind of platform to meet the changed situation...
...From a meeting of Republican national committeemen in Washington to arrange convention details word was passed out that 25 of the 53 members of the platform committee were already Wet and ready to support a referendum plank, while at least 535 of the 1,154 delegates will take a more liberal stand on Prohibition...
...Meanwhile President Hoover, who will have to stand on any Prohibition plank carpentered by the Convention, continued diligently to pursue his policy of silent neutrality. Ever since he threw away his chance, offered by the report of the Wickersham Commission, to take a Wet stand, he has been increasingly regarded by the public as a Dry. His friends report that he is irritated by the liquor agitation, calls it "poppycock," insists that the question is one for Congress to deal with first...
...Clarence True Wilson gave the Dry answer: "Drys would not support him and would go to extreme lengths to repudiate what they would consider a policy of Judas Iscariot. . . . They would either put up an independent candidate or would vote for the other [Democratic] side even though it were Wet as a rebuke for that kind of leadership...
...Five years ago James Lee Key, a tall, angular Atlanta lawyer who looks like a beardless Lincoln, was elected Mayor of Atlanta. Last week he was still Mayor after roundly trouncing an incongruous political combination of red-hot Drys and disgruntled Wet labor leaders. Atlantans refused to recall Mayor Key from office, by the record-breaking vote...