Three-Day Weekend
How It's Used
“Memorial Day wasn't always on a Monday. Inaugurated shortly after the Civil War, the holiday was originally known as 'Decoration Day,' and came to be observed in most states on May 30 of each year. Come the 1950s, NATO started militating for Memorial Day — and a slew of other holidays, including the Fourth of July — to be moved to Monday. This particular NATO, Frank Sullivan noted in a 1955 New York Times Magazine article, was not the defense alliance, but rather the National Association of Travel Organizations, a lobbying group that wanted to boost the number of three-day weekends.”
—Eric Felten, “In Search of the Real Tom Collins,” The Wall Street Journal, 26 May 07, p. P1.
“There is something called making ‘le pont’, which means that if a national holiday falls in the middle of the week, French workers will take off enough days before or after it to extend it all the way to the nearest weekend.”
—Stuart Jeffries, “Goodbye to la belle France?,” The Guardian Weekly, 18 May 07, p. 24.
Links Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on Long Weekends
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