Word: mcnider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge that Secretary McNider's new plan for aiding men to work their way through college in return for military service will be undoubtedly effective," stated Colonel Browning in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night...
Colonel Browning, commanding officer of the Harvard Military Science department, made this statement in reference to the new method of building up a national reserve of 4000 scholar-soldier-industrialists devised by Hanford McNider '11, Assistant Secretary of War. This plan will become effective next spring and is supported by industrialists all over the country...
...been a pioneer in adopting scientific business methods and at present has many technical and industrial training colleges. A number of college graduates annually enter the army for the purpose of getting commissions and this constant influx of trained men has created a high standard throughout the service. Secretary McNider's system will provide and additional group of military specialists to supplement the army in case of war. It will be no great innovation but the result of a growing need for technically trained men. My impression of the plan is a very favorable...
...Tearing up the fire insurance policies and booting the weary fire department out of the country as soon as the fire is put out" says Mr. Hanford McNider '11, is exactly comparable to getting rid of armaments and abolishing military training as soon as the war is over. This analogy appears logical. Since fire is an unavoidable emergency just as war is, protection is as necessary an antidote to extinguish the one as the other. Since the fire department is hostile to fires, the more firemen in any given district, the more infrequent the fires; with no firemen...
...Colonel McNider has a distinguished army career behind him, has been active in the American Legion of which he was National Commander in 1922, and has been a successful banker in Mason city, Iowa, since resigning from the army at the close of the Great War. The new assistant saw service on the Mexican border in 1916, and in 1917 went to France as a second lieutenant in the A. E. F. reaching the grade of lieutenantcolonel by the end of the war. He was wounded in action at St. Mihiel and decorated three times for bravery...