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1940-04-14 Liberty Magazine Contents

1940/04/13 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover by Arthur Smith

Contents as follows:
EDITORIAL:

  • Official Decisions–Watch Them Carefully by Bernarr Macfadden

    • SHORT STORIES

  • “Shovel Bum” by John Randolph Phillips and illustrated by Rico Tomaso
  • “Ripcord” by Doris Stead and illustrated by Vincentini
  • “Initiation” — A TRUE Short Short — by Burton Roscoe

    • SERIALS:

  • I Was a Hitler Agent in the USA — Part III — by Joachim F. Paffrath and illustrated by Charles Bryson
  • “The Girl Next Door” — Part VI by Eric Hatch and illustrated by Phil Berry
  • “Calcutta Adventure” — Part IV — by Edison Marshall and illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman

    • ARTICLES:

  • There Is a Job for You by Professor Walter B. Pitkin
  • Why I Won’t Join the Oxford Movement by Mahatma Gandhi with illustration of Gandhi
  • Why Hollywood Won’t Move to New York by Mayor Fletcher Bowron
  • Why I Won’t Fight for Mike Jacobs by Al Hostak as told to Gene Kessler
  • What America Wants to Know About the War by Vincent Sheean
  • What Kind of President Would Senator Taft Make? by Frederick L. Collins
  • The Man Who Couldn’t Die by Frederick Lewis

    • FEATURES:

  • Twenty Questions
  • $2,000 Vacation Resort and Travel Game
  • To the Ladies by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin
  • Movie Reviews by Beverly Hills
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • Vox Pop
  • Pabst Blue Ribbon ad with color illustration of the Pabst Girl by Bradshaw Crandall
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover