Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In TIME (June 27, 1927, your article "Calendar" under BUSINESS & FINANCE) you have surely given ear to a worthwhile idea. Now, why not further it? Ask TIME readers, many, potent, forward-looking, to write in their approval (or disapproval) and then transmit their voices as a helping hand to progressive George Eastman. Include my name in such a listing...
Methods of subdividing the year (calendars) have been changed repeatedly. Julius Caesar found the Egyptians using twelve 30-day months. The five extra days (six in leap years) they celebrated as holidays. Julius Caesar gave six odd months 31 days and February only 29 (30 in leap year). Emperor Augustus Caesar, jealous of his Uncle Julius' month July, gave to August 31 days also, and shifted other months to the present reckoning. In 1582 Pope Gregory corrected the calendar, which had lagged ten days behind astronomical time because the actual year contains 365.242 days, while the calendar year accounts...
...Eastman, businessman, has found the Gregorian division of years irksome. Statistics at present are never exactly comparable. Therefore Mr. Eastman has championed the International Fixed Calendar, devised by Moses B. Cotsworth of England, and considered well worth adoption by a committee of inquiry of the League of Nations...
This Cotsworth-Eastman calendar would divide the year into 13 equal months of 28 days each, each day numbered and named exactly the same. The 13th month would be called Sol and would go between June and July. The 365th day would be called "year-day" and be numbered December 29. In leap year the 366th day would be numbered June...
...Eastman, in supporting the revised International Fixed calendar, distributed new documents last week and called attention to potent businessmen who already favored the idea: President H. Edson White of Armour & Co., Chairman E. M. Beatty of the Canadian Pacific Railway, President V. M. Cutter of United Fruit Co., President George H. Wilcox of International Silver Co., President C. M. Chester Jr. of Postum Cereal Co., President S. L. Willson of American Writing Paper Co., dozens of others...