Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wet in a Dry job, who, they charged, had brought Atlanta to "financial ruin and disrepute by permitting a wide open town...
...majority of votes. Though the earlier Prohibition poll was inconclusive, the presidential poll of 1928 proved to be surprisingly accurate. The present questionnaire, offering only two choices, will probably decide with equal exactitude the sentiment of the American voters. Th large number of replies already counted show a decided wet majority in every state. Although the method of choosing voters prevented a completely typical cross-section, this result, as in 1928 indicates the belief of the American people...
...thanks for her entertainment of disabled soldiers. German Ambassador von Prittwitz introduced Dr. Oscar Eckstein of Berlin, adviser to the German Potash Syndicate. Actor Fred Stone, whose mother died two days before, dropped around with his daughter Paula for a brief how-do-you-do. Ambassador Edge, New Jersey Wet, home on leave from Paris, after a conference with President Hoover announced that he was returning immediately to his post but would be back in the U. S. to make Hoover speeches in the autumn campaign. With Secretary of Labor Doak, John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers...
Last week chunky, affable Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania did a Dry-to-Wet flipflop. In 1930 he was elected on the customary platform weasel of "strict enforcement." Fearful lest Boss William Scott Vare of Philadelphia reject him as a candidate for renomination in the April primaries. Senator Davis has now "regretfully reached the conclusion that the results hoped for under Prohibition have not materialized." Henceforth the Repeal-&-Return plank of the late Dwight Whitney Morrow will be his political guide...
...politicians have been so regular in election years, so independent when votes were not being counted. A Wet of Wets he was one of the first notable persons after Prohibition to come out for repeal. Long a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Butler broke with him over his Progressive movement in 1910. Every four years he writes a national platform for the Grand Old Party only to see it tossed aside at the convention. He went as a delegate to his first Republican convention in 1888. Since 1904 he has never missed one. In 1912 as the vice-presidential nominee...