Word: plumbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plumb Plan gives the railroad workers the absolute power to determine their wage. This fact has been admitted by the New York "Nation", a publication favorable to the Plumb Plan. "The Nation" says that whenever a vote is taken on the Board of Fifteen Directors, the ten members elected by industry can out-vote the five members appointed by the government...
...Plumb Plan would call for an investment of $18,000,000,000 to be raised by bond issue, which could be accomplished only by placing an interest of 5 1-2 or 6 per cent on the same. Such a procedure would be most undesirable financially to this country as it would decrease materially the value of our Liberty and Victory Bonds, and moreover, it would increase taxation...
...University team composed of L. E. Thomas '20, M. J. Donner '21, and L. Dennis Occ., upheld the negative of the question "Resolved: That the United States should adopt the Plumb Plan as embodied in the Sims Bill for the operation of the railroads, constitutionality granted," against the Dartmouth men. They were T. H. Pinney '22, H. E. Bernkopf '20, and S. B. Gorham...
Finally, the Plumb Plan marks the beginning of the nationalization of all industry. Senator Cummins has very truly said that the railroads have in the past, and will in the future, determine the fate of the other industries of the country...
...Glenn E. Plumb will preside at the University-Dartmouth dual debate in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock on his famous plan for the operation of the railroads. Two debates will be carried on simultaneously, one in Hanover, the other in Cambridge. The University negative team consisting of L. E. Thomas '20, M. J. Donner '21, L. Dennis Occ., with B. F. Jones '22, and A. M. Stoddard '20, alternates, will oppose in Sanders Theatre the affirmative team of Dartmouth, made up of T. H. Pinney, H. E. Bernkopf, S. B. Gorham, and G. E. Brooks. The question...