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1939-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/11 –
After Many a Summer — Part 1 — by Aldous Huxley
Broadcasting the Outbreak of War by Elmer Davis
Koussevitzky, Toscanini, Stokowski by Oscar Levant
The Industrial Revolution Hits the Farmer by Peter F. Drucker
“Light” — A poem by Hermann Hagedorn
“Seal Tregarthen’s Cousin” — A story by Margery Sharp
Since Yesterday — Part 1 — by Frederick Lewis [...]

1939-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/10 –
Old People: A Rising National Problem by Roy Helton
Roosevelt, the Rich Man’s Alibi by Elmer Davis
“The Strange Noise of Dr. Beldoon” — A story by Morris Markey
“Lost World” — A poem by Hermann Hagedorn
How the Wright Brothers Began by Fred C. Kelly
“Surmise” — A poem by Roland English Hartley
The Future of the British Empire [...]

1939-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/09 –
Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels by Charles A. Beard
Two Sonnets to Ourselves by Barclay Hall
Foreign Trade Begins at Home by John Chamberlain
Making Friends With Latin America by Hubert Herring
What England and France Think About Us by Frank C. Hanighen
“From Usually Reliable Sources” by Morris Gilbert
What We Think About Foreign Affairs by Francis Sill [...]

1939-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/08 –
The Return of Johnny Appleseed by Charles Allen Smart
“Futility at Dawn” — A poem by Elford Caughey
“Brigham and Amelia” — A story by Vardis Fisher
A Prize Fighter in the Nineties by Edmund Rucker
Seascape with Figures by Leonard Bacon
Storm Center in Brookline by Louis Untermeyer
“The Presbyterian Choir Singers” — A story by William Saroyan
“In Time [...]

1939-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/07 –
Germany Would Lose by Willson Woodside
America’s Gunpowder Women by Pearl S. Buck
“They Required of Us a Song” — A story by Ralph Bates
Wall Street, Main Street, & Co. by S.H. Walker and Julia Riera
Lessons in Living from the Stone Age by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Totalitarian “Prosperity” by Wilhelm Ropke
A Number of the People — Part 3 [...]

1939-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/06 –
Debt Threatens Democracy by Roy Helton
Europe’s Secret Nightmare by Henry C. Wolfe
“The Birthday” — A story by Thomas Wolfe
“In the Night” — A poem by Robert Nathan
Why France Trusts England by Andre Maurois
“Beauty Is Earth’s Immortal Carelessness” — A poem by Andrerson M. Scruggs
Fascism for America – Threat or Scarehead? by Lillian Symes
What [...]

1939-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/05 –
The End of Economic Man in Europe by Peter F. Drucker
A Number of People — Recollections of London Society in the Gay Nineties — Part 1 — by Sir Edward Marsh
From a Town in a State of Siege — A Sequence of Five Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Where England Stands by J.B. [...]

1939-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/04 –
Wanted: A Sane Defense Policy by Oswald Garrison Villiard
No More Excursions! by C. Hartley Grattan
Courage for Tomorrow by Avis D. Carlson
“Anschluss” — A Story by Kay Boyle
Music Goes Into Mass Production by Dickson Skinner
“Hymn Before Night” — A Poem by Martha Keller
When Grandfather Ran Off With the Tartar Girl by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
“Simple Farewell” — [...]

1939-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/03 –
In An Era of Unreason by Nathaniel Peffer
Hutchins of Chicago — part 1 — by Milton S. Mayer
Efim and the Tartar Horses – A Chronicle of Siberian Childhood – by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Sonnet – A poem by Elizabeth Sampson Hoopes
American Women Are Coming Along by Grace Adams
Doing Business in Germany by Gunther Reimann
Setter and Terrier [...]

1939-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/02 –
The Emperor of Japan by John Gunther
“Rebel” — A poem by Josephine Johnson
The Social Security “Reserve” Swindle by John T. Flynn
Literary Conference by Leonard Bacon
Before Hitler Crosses the Atlantic by Henry C. Wolfe
“Silver Virgin” — A story by Benedict Thielen
“Night in Paradise” — A poem by Martha Bacon
The Wisconsin Brothers by Elmer Davis
Evelyn the [...]

1939-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/01 –
England Moves Toward Fascism by Eliot Janeway
“What Have I?” — A story by Ruth Suckow
“Would Miss Tarbell See Mr. Rogers?” by Ida M. Tarbell
Can Germany Win the Balkans by Peter F. Drucker
“Traumerei” — A story by Charles Cooke
The TVA and the Utilities by Richard Hellman
The Blackest Night — In a Sussex Village, September 27-30, [...]

1938-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1938/12 –
The Legal Profession by Ferdinand Lundberg
“Holy Morning” — A Story by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
“God’s Barn” — Poems by Winifred Welles
The Road to Munich by Willson Woodside
The Road from Munich by Elmer Davis
Forty-Third Division — Part 1 — by Ralph Bates
King of Kings — The Shah of Iran, Which Used to Be Persia — by [...]

1938-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1938/09 –
China and Japan : Second Year by Nathaniel Peffer
Boats for Hire — A Story by Bucklin Moon
Morgan and Morgan and Lilienthal by Willson Whitman
Inhibition — A Poem by Margery Mansfield
In An American Factory by Stoyan Pribichevich
The Story of the Davis Cup by John R. Tunis
On Being Kept by a Cat by Elmer Davis
The Doctors [...]

1938-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1938/05 –
The Future of Our Higher Education by James Bryant Conant
“The Dirty War” — A story by Thomas Sancton
The Supreme Court Today by Marquis W. Childs
New Orleans: A First Impression by J.B. Priestley
When the Population Levels Off by Henry Pratt Fairchild
Collective Living by John Hyde Preston
“The Willow Fly” — A story by Eugene Wright
Song by [...]

1938-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1938/04 –
But Is There a Federal Deficit? by David Cushman Coyle
“The White Camel” — A story by Eugene Wright
Bermuda, 1938 by Frederick Lewis Allen
The Millvale Apparition by Louis Adamic
“In a Place of Drought” — A poem by John Dillon Husband
The American Way by Gerald W. Johnson
I Knew a Chinese Bandit by Carl Crow
The Plight of [...]

1938-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1938/03 –
We Lose the Next War by Elmer Davis
“Fantasia for Trumpets” — A Story by A.H.Z. Carr
“His Autumn Colored-Face” — A Poem by Jesse Stuart
A Little Girl’s New York by Edith Wharton
Catching Up With Inventors by Arthur Train, Jr.
Russia and the Socialist Ideal by Max Eastman
Do You Know Aaron Slick? by Merrill Denison
The American Way [...]

1938-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1938/02 –
The American Way by David Cushman Coyle
“Grandma and the Sentimental Traveler” — A story by Dorothy Thomas
“Creator of the Universe” — A poem by Jesse Stuart
The Riddle of Hitler by Stephen H. Roberts
Can Divorce Be Sucessful? by Anonymous
Men Without Wheels by John W. Vancercook
“New Year’s Morning” — A poem by C.F. MacIntyre
The Folly [...]

1938-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1938/01 –
Business Finds Its Voice by S.H. Walker – Paul Sklar
“The Globe” — A story by Benedict Thielen
World’s Fair, 1939: A Preview by Gardner Harding
I Fly for Spain by Eugene Finick
Word-Trouble Among the Statesmen by Stuart Chase
Invitation to the Country by Charles Allen Smart
“This Faith, This Violence” — A poem by ribert Nathan
What’s Behind [...]

1937-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1937/12 –
Convulsion in the Orient by Nathaniel Peffer
Mr. Sweeney’s Shadow – A Story by Joan Detweiler
An Observer Warns the Church by Rollo Walter Brown
Passing Understanding – A Poem by C.F. MacIntyre
Robert Moses and His Parks by Hubert Herring
Farewell to Shanghai by Carl Crow
Word-Trouble Among the Economists by Stuart Chase
The Bond Salesman – A Story by [...]

1937-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1937/11 –
The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase
Shall Marriage Be Subsidized? by Genevieve Parkhurst
“Surplus” — A poem by Charles Hanson Towne
“The White House Is Calling” by Stanley High
I Was on the Hindenburg by Margaret G. Mather
In Memoriam: Third Ypres — A Poem by James Norman Hall
The Orchestra Conductor by John Tasker Howard
One Day in History [...]

1937-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1937/10 –
Balance What Budget? By David Cushman Coyle
Sons of the Wold about Mussolini’s Six-Year-Old Soldiers by Ernest Poole
Why Birds Leave Home by George Dock, Jr.
Mathematician – A Poem by Edward Weismiller
Roosevelt: Democratic or Dictatorial? by Stanley High
A Sagebrush Bookshelf by Bernard DeVoto
Radio, American Style by Jascha Heifetz
Korea from a Nunnery Window by Willard Price
Man Moving [...]

1937-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1937/09 –
Mr. Roosevelt and the Future by Stanley High
Good-by to the Superintendent – A story by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
Trout in Swift Water – A poem by Edward Weismiller
Japan Counts the Cost by Nathaniel Peffer
Letters from Jay Chapman by M.A. De Wolfe Howe
Dixie Detour by Cedric Belfrage
A Formula for Conservatives by Harold J. [...]

1937-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1937/08 –
Midsummer Fiction Issue
Birmingham, Alabama by George R. Leighton
The Promise – A Story by John Steinbeck
Washington Wife by Nathalie Colby
Planning the Ethiopian Campaign by Emilio De Bono
The Complete Scandalmonger by George Boas
Lady in Trouble – A Story by Margery Sharp
A Biologist Looks at England by J.B.S. Haldane
I Believe – A Story by Benedict [...]

1937-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1937/07 –
The War Boom Begins by John T. Flynn
The Haunted Palace – A Story by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
A Professor Quits the Communist Party by Stuart Browne
The Importance of Loafing by Lin Yutang
Eye-Witness in Madrid – Part 2 by Geoffrey Cox
Speaking of Cats and Dogs by Grace Flandrau
No One Has Sung for Us – A Poem [...]

1937-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1937/06 –
Can the Small Business Man Survive? By John Allen Murphy
Memoir of My Mother by Angelo P. Bertocci
What and Where Are We? By J.W.N. Sullivan
Eye-Witness in Madrid – Part 1 by Geoffrey Cox
Honoris Causa by John R. Tunis
The Unconquerable Mexican by Hubert Herring
Walnuts – A Story by Griffith Beens
Stone of Mercury – A Poem [...]