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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...
Meeting in Manhattan last week, U. S. paper makers vigorously endorsed the often-proposed 13-month calendar with 28-day months and an extra summer month, Sol. "Inconsistencies" in the present calendar, they agreed, should not be "tolerated...
Moreover, every railroad would have to scrap its time tables and publish new ones telling how on the fourth of Sol, No. 3456 stopped only when flagged and that there would be special excursion rates from Sol 14 to Sol...
...August 30. Busy executives would dictate letters beginning, "Yours of the 30th instant received and contents noted." Thus paper men saw paper-profits. One of the convention delegates suggested as a campaign song for the new movement, "Will you love me in December as you did in Sol...
Adverse criticism, financial difficulties beset the German Grand Opera Company after its first performance. After one week it was necessary to dethrone Manager Blumental, place the company under the care of Concert Manager Sol Hurok, who said in part...