Word: receivership
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...negative E.R. Lewis opened the debate. He showed that conditions in San Domingo are not as serious as the affirmative had claimed, that for that reason the United States should hesitate to interfere. In the second speech for the affirmative, I. Dimond emphasized the fact that a European receivership would establish the nucleus of a permanent possesion. This point, however, was well refuted by D. Rosenblum, the next speaker on the Sophomore team. He showed that no European nation could get permanent possession of land on this side of the Atlantic, because of the Monroe Doctrine, which has been declared...