Word: plumb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unanimous decision of three judges the University won over Syracuse in a debate held under the auspices of the Syracuse Alumni of Albany in Chancellors' Hall of that city on Saturday evening. The subject--"Resolved, That the United States should adopt the Plumb Plan as embodied in the Sims Bill for the operation of the railroads, constitutionality granted"--is the same as that of the Bates contest of a week ago Monday...
...Syracuse Alumni or that city. J. J. Tuton IL., B. H. Kuhus '22, W. S. Holbrook, Jr., '21, and B. F. Jones '22, alternate, will uphold the negative of the same question as that in the Bates contest last Monday: 'Resolved, That the United States should adopt the Plumb Plan as embodied in the Sims Bill for the operation of the railroads--constitutionality granted...
...University debating team will meet the representatives of Bates College at Lewiston, Maine, next Monday, February 23, with the following subject for argument: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt the Plumb plan as provided in the Sims bill for the operation of the railroads." The team chosen from the University to uphold the negative will consist of L. E. Thomas '20, M. J. Donner '21, and L. Dennis Occ. The alternates have not yet been chosen...
...form of a debate will be tried by the University debating team on February 23. It will be a double debate, one of the University teams going to Albany, where it will Syracuse, the other matching Bates Lewiston, Me. Both teams will debate on the same subject, the "Plumb Plan," But each will argue on a different side. Thus the two debates will be conducted as though two halves of a debate against the adversary, although the University will face two opponents...
...principal objections to the Plumb Plan is the inefficiency in management which would result. Government ownership has everywhere proved less successful than private management, our present experience with the railroads being a case in point. Moreover, the interests of the public would not control the policy and direction of the railroads under the Plumb Plan, but rather the interests of the railroad men themselves...