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1940-09-02 Life Magazine Contents

1940/09/02 — Cover photograph featuring the Dionne Quintuplets is credited to Hansel Mieth

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Muder Ends Great Revolutionary Career of Leon Trotsky – 5 pages packed with photos, opening with one of Trotsky on his hospital bed

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

  • Duke of Windsor Inspects His New Seat of Government at the Bahamas
  • Wendell Willkie Begins His Campaign
  • German “Balloon Busters” Attack the Dover Barrage
  • Women of Wrath String up Senator on Capital Lawn
  • …President Roosevelt Inspects Army Maneuvers at Ogdensburg
  • U.S. Flag Business Booms
  • Army Plugs Recruiting Drive with Modern Advertising Methods
  • British Use Millais Painting as Propaganda
  • The White House in Color

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Dionne Quintuplets – The Enter the Age of Reason

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Henry A. Wallace

    • ANIMALS:

  • U.S. Kennels Are World Breeding Center as Germany Kills Its Dogs

    • MOVIES:

  • “The Great Dictator” starring Charlie Chaplin – 4 pages, packed with photos of Chaplin from the movie

    • TRAVEL:

  • Ferryboat Makes 10,000 Mile Trip on High Seas

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • From LIFE’s Correspondents
  • Speaking of Pictures: Night Baseball
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE Goes to a Party With Drama Students at East Hampton, L.I.
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Color ad for 1847 Rogers Bros. with half-page color photo of Carole Lombard