North Dakota Architects Banquet Highlights State Growth
A banquet at the Frederick hotel by the Grand Forks Traders Exchange closed North Dakota Architects Association’s semi annual session. J F T O Connor delivered the principal address on architecture’s role in state and city development amid praise for cooperation between architects builders and labor.
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Frederick Hotel
Grand Forks
North Dakota Architects’ Association
J. F. T. O'Connor
KH. Nasy
J.T. Hulteng
Builders' and ‘Tradern’ Exchange
Walter Hancock
Fargo
Architects’ Assocition
James A. Dinnie
North Dakota
Bram
N. M
Grand Forks School Closes December 23 for Christmas Vacation
The Grand Forks city school will close on December 23 for the annual Christmas vacation and reopen on January 10. The board of education approved the break and also voted to offer pupils a chance to participate in Near East relief, with plans to be outlined noon by Superintendent W. Stebbins.
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Grand Forks City
Board of Education
W. ©. Stebbins
Men to Work for Bonus Adjustment
Service men here push for a legislative plan in North Dakota to issue negotiable instruments as IOUs for unpaid bonuses. They note no cash has been paid and only adjutant office postcards exist as proof of claim while earlier loans on these claims have ceased due to current money conditions.
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North Dakota
Adjutant's Office
Houston Urges Tax Reform Across National System
Secretary Houston argues for limited consumption taxes targeting surplus income while avoiding broad, petty levies. He condemns the excess profits tax and calls for a corporation profits tax to promote equality. He urges strict federal spending control and notes major wartime rail subsidies underpin most expenditures.
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Congress
Houston
S Mall
War Department
War Debt Retirement Plans and Treasury Reforms Highlighted
Secretary Houston outlines a program to retire key government obligations including War Savings Certificates and Victory Notes. He urges early spring settlement of railroad guaranty claims and supports a federal budget system. He also recommends reorganizing Treasury bureaus and creating an under secretary position with higher pay, while proposing extended terms for foreign loan obligations through June 1947.
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Houston
Treasury
Houstonays
Sons of the Treasury
Prohibition
Public
Geri Supply Committee
the Treasury
Tao
France
Italy
Greece
Belgium
Czecho-Slovakia
Civil War Pensioners Number and Payouts Decline in 1920
The 1920 pension year disbursements totaled 213 million dollars, down about nine million from 1919. It lists 243,520 Civil War pensioners and 290,000 widows, with 71 widow beneficiaries from the War of 1812 and 148 Mexican War survivors. World War I survivors do not appear on the roll.
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Washington
Itzgaber
Pension Bureau
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J. W. Grady
Federation
Ole Hrareth
Mr. O'Shea
E.R. Boyd
Jamestown
Arthur van Horn
Bismarck
Bert D. Keck
Keck
Areniteets
Sally
Peple
the Home Builders' Association
Httle
Nort Dakota Association of Architects
W. B. Hancock
EB. R. Boyd
Jamestow
G. B. Horton
Bert Keck
A. 0. Braasth
W. J. Edwards
J.A. Shannon
Joseph Bell DeRemer
Tom McGoey
N. Third St. Grand Forks
Eden
Hoover
Royal Vacuum
Nmos
Laliderit
John Hart Brittain
Mr. Brittain
ALEO
CG P. Tripanier
Johann Hl.vold
Lia Ito
Wenden
Santa Claus
Tee
Hoe
Eden Au
Roya
Aspoon
Beal
Su Ged
Timonder Vanille
ROYAL
Northern States Power Company
Central Northwest
B. Se Ee Wee Sunbor
Raine
OUR Securities Department
Rep River Power Co
Poe, Boe
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