sentences:  The George Matthew Adams Service debuted in 1916, which syndicated such strips as Billy DeBeck's "Finn an' Haddie", Robert Baldwin's "Freddy", Edwina Dumm's "Cap Stubbs and Tippie" and Ed Wheelan's "Minute Movies".Adams' syndicate peaked in the 1920s and 1930s.Cartoonist Sidney Smith's popular strip "The Gumps", which debuted in the "Chicago Tribune" in 1917, played a key role in the rise of syndication.