Word: almanacers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular acclaim the prize for effort; Professor Griswold received the strainer for being under the most strain for the evening. For knifing the interlocutor, William Hardee received the dagger and Mrs. Maguire got the happy wooden hen. The grand prizes, sets of the most popular encyclopedia, the World almanac, went to Judge Magruder, Professor Griswold, John Richardson, and Mrs. Follansbee
...approved the U. S. form of government. Less than 1% had read any schoolbooks which, they thought, "break down the loyalty of pupils to the United States." Sixteen of them said Professor Rugg's did so. Others denounced as subversive The Man Without A Country, the World Almanac...
...farmer, self-educated, Publisher Thomas had a passion for information that was useful to the average man. Once a year for 54 years his almanac came forth to stir the imagination of its readers with notable anniversaries, give them the schedule of sunup and sundown, tell them the value of foreign gold...
Originally little more than a farmer's calendar, The Old Farmer's Almanac soon began to show its author's convictions. In 1808, taking up the controversy of public v. private schools, he observed: "Fun, frolick and filigree are too much practised at the academies for the benefit of a farmer's boy. Let them have a solid and useful education." Eleven years later he was moved to warn: "Either the body or the mind must be engaged in honest industry; for idleness is like grog -take nothing else and-'you're gone...
...subscribers (mostly New Englanders), from Bangor, Me. to Hong Kong. These ardent readers feared that the Old Farmer's 1940 issue would be its last. After the death of its fourth copyright owner, Bostonian Carroll J. Swan, in 1935, Little, Brown & Co. agreed to publish the almanac for five years. Its contract ended with the 148th edition. But this week the 149th was scheduled to come out bright & shiny as ever, kitchen-nail hole and all. Its new publisher: shrewd, shaggy Robb Sagendorph, Boston social registerite and Harvardman ('22), who publishes and edits the monthly Yankee, at Dublin...