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Cotsworth-Eastman proposed calendar [TIME, June 27] would produce hopeless confusion in rearrangement of dates, would make obsolete all present dating machines and apparatus containing such. Another objection, important in eyes of hard-worked businessmen: would give them three (or two) days less summer vacation...
...division of the Portland (Ore.) Chamber of Commerce last week determined, and published their determination, to use the Cotsworth-Eastman 13-month calendar, "provided it is universally adopted." That is the calendar Chairman George Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Co. has been giving his active support (TIME, June...
...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...
...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...
Died. John R. Thompson, 62, originator of the "one-arm chair" restaurants; of heart disease; at Lake Forest, Ill. He started with a nickel coffee stall during the Chicago World's Fair (1893); lately served 53,000,000 meals annually throughout the U. S.* Died. Guy Eastman Tripp, 62, since 1912 Chairman of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; in Manhattan; from complications following an intestinal operation. He recently attracted widespread interest by his plan for the electrification of the entire country under one mammoth system for all railroads, street cars, factories, farms and houses. Died. Jerome Klapka Jerome...