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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]