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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed as leader of "calendar reform" is George Eastman. Last week to his side came Julius Rosenwald's Sears, Roebuck & Co. which announced it will operate next year on a 13-month schedule. To its customers, the introduction of some new month such as "Sol" will mean nothing, but 40,000 employes will have to consult their company's new calendar to learn when payday falls...
Closely does Sears, Roebuck's decision follow upon the publication last fortnight of the results of balloting conducted by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Although 1,580 voters had favored a new calendar as against 1,197 opponents, a two-thirds majority is necessary before the Chamber of Commerce can endorse a movement...
While a uniform calendar has many advantages, its opponents argue glibly. Cost and confusion of a change would be overwhelming. Religious days such as Easter could not be fixed without the Church's approval. But state and city holidays wishing the new calendar can freely follow Sears, Roebuck's example, install it without further balloting...
...which had 29 except in leap year when it had 30. In 8 B.C. Emperor Augustus wished his month to have 31 days instead of 30, snatched the extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated error was eleven days. Turkey adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1917, Russia in 1918, Rumania and Serbia in 1919, Greece...
When Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch incorporated Bosch Magneto Co. of New York it was to be a subsidiary of his Robert Bosch Aktiengesellschaft. But in 1917 the U. S. company was seized as alien property, sold, reorganized as American Bosch Magneto Co. In 1921 Herr Bosch again invaded U. S. markets, forming Robert Bosch Magneto Co., Inc., of Long Island City. Quickly American Bosch Co. brought suit, charged they alone had right to the Bosch name, won a verdict that prevented Inventor Bosch from using his name on products marketed...