Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each battery had three mornings a week on the range, the basic course students manning the guns, while the advances course students directed the fire, either from a balloon, from the battery commander's station, or from a interal observation post, "E" battery made remarkable progress in this department, and at the time of a visit from the chief of Field Artillery, it was chosen to fire several problems for his benefit. He complimented the gun squads in particular for their remarkably fine work...
...recommends that students who intend to make administrative social work their career should undergo a thorough professional training of two years if possible, or at least one year. Such students are advised to take the professional courses given by the department and also to coordinate such technical training with basic courses in political and economic theory, in statistical analysis and in business administration. Students will be assisted in drawing up plans of study which will combine the courses in social ethics with courses given in other departments, so as to train them for any one of the special fields...
...basic principle of Hoover's stand on taxation is the better distribution of wealth. In short, there can be no equality of opportunity if the ownership of the tools of production and service is to become the property of a narrow group of holders. As regards the question of a high income tax, Hoover claims that theoretically it is a direct transfer of capital to income in the hands of the state and thus might be criticized as stifling the increase of capital. Practically this would be answered if the State applied such receipts to the extinction of the national...
...have to go carefully in handling men who are working with you. Discipline is founded on respect for the officer or soldier. The basic qualification for an officer is that he show the men that he always has their best interest and welfare at heart. This applies to men in war, industry, or anywhere else...
...Coupled with a complete knowledge of the basic principles of substantial government, the governor possesses to a marked degree a sincere devotion to the cause of the American people. In no one section of the country are all his energies centered nor in any one class of people are all his interests placed, but he is concerned with the progress of the whole country and the welfare of all classes of people. Gifted with experience and ability as an executive, endowed with personal charm and eloquence, Governor Lowden may confidently await the Republican Convention with the calm assurance that...