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1934-06 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1934/06 — Contents as follows:
The Miners Fight Their Leaders by Tom Tippett
Taxation in America and England by Harold M. Groves
Flying Is Still Dangerous by Kenneth Brown Collings
Uncle Palli by Hilda Perini
Who Gets the Milk Profits? by Benjamin Horace Hibbard
I Recover from Sleeping Sickness by Eleanore Carey
Godfather to American Corruption by Esther Strachey
Playboy (to Alice B. [...]

1933-08 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1933/08 — Contents as follows:
Lowell of Harvard by Charles Angoff
Jack Dempsey by Jim Tully
It Was Like This by Stanley Walker
Blessed Event in Vienna by Martha Foley
Americana
There Is a Land by Francis Hackett
Secret Saint by Alice Mulhern
On the Causes of Crime by Sheldon Glueck
The Pedagogues Hunt Indians by Flora Warren Seymour
Cadet Edgar Allan Poe, USA by [...]

1933-05 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1933/05 — Contents as follows:
What Is Going On in the World
America: 1933 by Eugene Davidson
The Old Guard Dies by William C. Murphy, Jr.
The Death-Rate in the Depression by W.W. Bauer
They Call Me a Monk by Brother Cajetan
Americana
Lest We Forget by M.B. Hamilton
The Man Who Looked Like Himself by Erskine Caldwell
The Americans in Ethiopia by Jerrold [...]

1933-03 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1933/03 — Contents as follows:
What Is Going On in the World
Paradise by James M. Cain –from the page about the authors: “James M. Cain is a former newspaper man, now living in California.” This story was published prior to Cain’s famous novels “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (1934) and “Double Indemnity” (1936)
Big Leaguer by [...]

1931-09 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1931/09 — Contents as follows:
The Worst American State: Part I — by Charles Angoff & H.L. Mencken
Ohio Town by Hugh Hanley
A City Editor’s Testament by Stanley Walker
Editorials
American Folk Art by Holger Cahill
Laura Jean Libbey by Louis Gold
The Assassination of McKinley by Emma Goldman
Americana
A Jeeter Wedding by Dorothy Thomas
Yorktown, 1781 by Hoffman Nickerson
The Arts and Sciences:
The [...]

1931-08 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1931/08 — Contents as follows:
The Radio Octopus by Dane Yorke
The Beer Barons of New York by Gerald Holland
Leaves from a Waste-Basket
Our Street in Cuernavaca by Elizabeth Morrow
Uncle Sam’s Balleyhoo Men by J. Frederick Essary
Americana
The Finance Company Racket by Ulric Whitaker
Choral by Elizabeth Lindsay
The Democrats Must Go Native! by John Hemphill
The Arts and Sciences:
The Brooklyn [...]

1931-02 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1931/02 — Contents as follows:
Hard Winter by Jack Conroy
Evacuation Hospital by Louis Gold
A Pioneer Captain by H.L. Davis
Editorials
A Pretty Cute Little Stunt by George Milburn
Lydia Pinkham by Robert Collyer Washburn
The Case for Foreign Missions by Henry A. Perkins
Career of a Public Servant by W.A.S. Douglas
Americana
Wanted: A World Language by Edward Sapir
Grandma Gingersnap by Charles Sampson
The [...]

1931-01 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1931/01 — Contents as follows:
The Young Doctor in New York by Lewis G. Arrowsmith
Stephen A. Douglas by Edgar Lee Masters
Your Home-Town Paper: Paris by Whit Burnett & Martha Foley
Editorials
Free Books by Matthew Paxton
Notes on Marriage by William F. Ogburn
School Days in the Gumbo by H.H. Lewis
Americana
Shakespeare’s New England by Dane Yorke
On Women as Housekeepers by [...]

1930-12 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1930/12 — Contents as follows:
Why I Do Not Become an American by Theodore Maynard
Lodge Doctor by Lewis G. Arrowsmith
Liberty and Democracy by Louis Le Fevre
Editorials
Bong Soir by Joel Sayre
Savonarola in Los Angeles by Duncan Aikman
Americana
Sex and the Bishops by Herbert Parrish
Oklahoma Note Book by George Milburn
The Arts and Science:
Cremation in the United States by George [...]

1930-02 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1930/02 — Contents as follows:
The Twilight of Legislatures by Hoffman Nickerson
Water on the Wheat by H.L. Davis
What Is the Family Still Good For? by Edward Sapir
Editorials
Mass Psychologist by Henry F. Pringle
The War in the South by W.J. Cash
Americana
Reb Samuel by Michael Gold
Hurdles for the Hoover Commission by Howard Lee McBain
The Arts and Sciences:
The Nurse and [...]

1930-01 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1930/01 — Contents as follows:
The Centennial of Mormonism by Bernard DeVoto
A Mormon Boyhood by Neil Borgquist Musser
Overseas Americans by R.C. Brown
Editorial
The Eugenics Bugaboo by Warren S. Thompson
School-Books Free by H.E. Buchholz
Americana
The American Hotel by Jefferson Williamson
Healed by Harlan Miller
The Arts and Sciences:
The Middle-Aged at Play by John B. Hawes, 2nd
The Newborn by I. Newton Kugelmass
A [...]

1929-12 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1929/12 — Contents as follows:
The Secretariat by A Washington Correspondent
Experience by Ruth Suckow
Citizenship by James M. Cain
Editorial
Saving Souls in Japan by Oland D. Russell
Apostle of Manifest Destiny by Bernard Mayo
Americana
Five El Paso Worthies by Owen P. White
Figaro Storms Athene by Maurice S. Sullivan
More Tales from Oklahoma by George Milburn
Language by Frances M. Frost
The Arts and [...]

1929-08 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1929/08 — Contents as follows:
Black Ulysses Goes to War by Howard W. Odum
Heap Big Chief by A Washington Correspondent
A Moral Crisis in Banking by John Carter
Editorial
We Elect a Bishop by Nelson Antrim Crawford
Duke by Ben Dixon MacNeill
Americana
Testimonials–Mainly Medical by Arthur J. Cramp
The Arts and Sciences:
Floggin the Ether by Genevieve Cain
Skin-Grafting by Harold E. Hullsiek
The Conflict [...]

1929-04 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1929/04 — Contents as follows:
The Progressives of the Senate by A Washington Correspondent
The Will of the People by James M. Cain
Sapping Day by Jim Tully
Mrs. Kemper by Ruth Suckow
Editorial
The Discipline of Sex by Edward Sapir
Learning How to be Black by Albon L. Holsey
Americana
Renaissance in Hollywood by (R.E.) Robert Sherwood
Trial by Jury, or by Judge? by [...]

1929-03 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1929/03 — Contents as follows:
The Nervous American by Harvey O’Higgins
Americanization in Samoa by Margaret Mead –from the page about the authors: “Margaret Mead, Ph.D. (Columbia), is assistant curator of ethology at the American Musuem of Natural History, and is now in New Guinea, where she is making a study of the pre-school child under primitive [...]

1929-02 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1929/02 — Contents as follows:
The Presidential Succession by H.H. Sawyer
The Sad Case of Porto Rico by Luis Munoz Marin
Old Man Isbell’s Wife by H.L. Davis
Editorial
Are We Solving the Traffic Problem? by Raymond S. Tompkins
Dry Texas by Albert Linsay O’Neil Jr.
Grande Dame by John Armstrong
Americana
There’s Women in Portland by B. Virginia Lee
Some New Whitman Letters by [...]

1928-10 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1928/10 — Contents as follows:
Why Poker Was Invented by James Stevens
Women as Jurors by H.H. Sawyer
Health Audits by Logan Clendening
Four Poems by Carl Sandburg – 1) Destroyers; 2) Foolish About Windows; 3) Epistle; 4) Boy Baby
Editorial
Psychology as Fortune-Teller by Arturo F. Ratti
Mid-Western Nights’ Entertainment by Marquis W. Childs
Americana
The Holy Rollers by Duncan Aikman
The Arts and [...]

1928-09 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1928/09 — Contents as follows:
The New Tammany by Joseph McGoldrick
A Test of Eugenics by Ellsworth Huntington
Two Songs by Muna Lee
Editorial
Preacher’s Wife by Merritt Wimberly
Americana
New England Does Not Choose by Dane Yorke
In Memoriam by Richmond Barrett
The Omnipotent Nine
The Arts and Sciences:
Popular Songs and their Piano Accompaniments by Isaac Goldberg
Bathing Through the Ages by Robert H. Lowie
Jailbirds [...]

1928-07 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1928/07 — Contents as follows:
The Virginians Are Coming Again by Vachel Lindsay
Shanty Irish by Jim Tully
The Money That Makes Presidents by Frank R. Kent
The Movies Tackle Literature by Leda V. Bauer
Editorial
If This Be Treason– by James Robinson
Making Justice Less Expensive by H.H. Sawyer
Americana
The Bohunks by Louis Adamic
Theological Interlude by James M. Cain
The Arts and Sciences:
Word [...]

1928-05 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1928/05 — Contents as follows:
The Frail Sister of Medicine by Ralph Coghlan
The Great Papist Plot by W.A.S. Douglas
Written in Sand by Eda Lou Walton
Thieves and Vagabonds by Jim Tully
Editorial
Latin America Falls in Line by Genaro Arbaiza
The Rehabilitation of Whiskey by R.H. Towner
A Negro Looks at Race Prejudice by James Weldon Johnson
A New York Childhood by [...]

1928-04 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1928/04 — Contents as follows:
Notes of a Prohibition Agent by Homer Turner
Reflections of a Bootician by C.G. John
The Troubled Trolley by Raymond S. Tompkins
Editorial
Frank Norris, or, Up from Culture by Charles Caldwell Dobie
Jungle Justice by Jim Tully
Americana
Hymn to Satan by Benjamin DeCasseres
The Dean of Music by Karl Andrist
The Arts and Sciences:
Native Architecture in [...]

1927-11 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1927/11 — Contents as follows:
The Biology of Superiority by Raymond Pearl
Egypt by W.A.S. Douglas
Tom Heflin by John W. Owens
A German Grandfather by Ruth Suckow
Editorial
Elegy in a Malty Mood by Benjamin DeCasseres
Officers of the Court by Horace A. Davis
Americana
A Texas Chain-Gang by Ernest Booth
The Arts and Sciences:
Heat or Heredity? by Emmett Reid Dunn
The Yugoslav Speech in [...]

1927-10 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1927/10 — Contents as follows:
Red, White and Blue by James M. Cain
A Man of Heart by Arthur Strawn
Bull Horrors by Jim Tully
Evviva San Francisco by Idwal Jones
Editorial
Notes for a Comic History by George Seibel
Princes of the Press by Raymond S. Tompkins
The Braodway Mind by Benjamin De Casseres
Americana
The Passing of Vaudeville by W.A.S. Douglas
Under Which Flag? [...]

1924-12 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for December 1924

1924/12 — Contents as follows:
The Christian Statesman by Edgar Lee Masters
The Grammarian — A Story by John McClure
Trial by Jury by Harry Elmer Barnes
Americana
Editorial
Therapeutic Thaumaturgy by Arthur J. Cramp
Congressional Letters by Hilton Butler
High Dignitaries of State by James M. Cain
Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
Conclusion — A Story by L.M. Hussey
The [...]

1924-11 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for November 1924

1924/11 — Contents as follows:
On Doing the Right Thing by Albert Jay Nock
Jesus and His Biographers by Alphonse B. Miller
The Uninvited — A Story by Thomas Boyd
Politician: Female by James M. Cain
The Liberty Bell by Henry J. Ford
Americana
Editorial
The Biology of Population Growth by Raymond Pearl
The Shroud of Color — A Poem by Countee [...]