Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans in the House of Representatives divided 112 Dry to 97 Wet in last fortnight's Prohibition vote...
...Chicago to make a St. Patrick's Day speech Secretary of War Hurley, talking privately to friends, was overheard by a newsman to say: "I believe the national convention will adopt a more liberal stand on Prohibition. A great many people are going to look for Wet candidates in November. Eventually I think the Prohibition question will be settled on the basis of State's rights." Back in Washington where Dry leaders were shocked and hurt by his words, Secretary Hurley hastened to explain: "When I want to speak in quotation on Prohibition, the words will be mine...
...Missouri prepared to send a Wet pro-Hoover delegation to the National Convention and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, ardent Dry Methodist though he is, acquiesced...
...Ohio is the birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League. A majority of Ohio's convention delegates will be Wet...
...something fine and honest and sincere. It was something for which the 18th century had searched and found a half answer in the cynicism of Voltaire who taught them only what was wrong. Rousseau in feeling had found the truth which his century could not find in thought. He wet the hearts of men at war and struck off the sparks of Revolution. Down the alley of the 18th century he fled and into the broad boulevards of the 20th. His words are written into half a score of constitutions and his thoughts have driven men into...