Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Channukah, a festival of gayety, rejoicing, blurs in the minds of U. S. children reared in Jewish faith because it occurs so close to Christmas. Christmas comes Dec. 25, Channukah the 25th of Kislew (Jewish calendar). At both, children are coddled, given presents. And both, curiously, merged centuries ago with heathen celebrations of the winter solstice, the turning of the year...
...group of earnest business men met last week in an upholstered committee room in the Woolworth Building. They were members of the Manhattan Merchants' Association-a Special Committee on the Simplification of the Calendar. They discussed the various inconveniences which the world has been compelled to put up with since the days of Julius Caesar because of the clumsy time-divisions with which that dictator encumbered civilization...
Clement M. Biddle, President of the Biddle Purchasing Co., said that 137 plans for changing the calendar had been submitted to him, of which he had read 30. The plans were, in general, of two kinds-those that divided the year into four equal quarters, and those that gave it 13 months...
...gentleman proposed to make 1927 the beginning of a new world, the first year of time, 1 G.C. The initials, he explained, stood for "Globe Calendar," of which he was the deviser...
...Louis Rapaport, representing the National United Women's Wear Association, said that the needle trades want a stable calendar...