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 Bridge by Lewis Mumford Sodium Amytal as an Anesthetic by J. Shirley Sweeney Preparing for the Next War by Herbert Claiborne Pell Senators Investigate Indians by Erna Fergusson The Exquisite American by Theodore Maynard Rio Grande: Part IV: The Rise and Fall of the Mountain Men by Harvey Fergusson A Little Path of Glory by Robert Jeans Music: MacDowell’s Protesting Demon by Edward Robinson The Library by H.L. Mencken The American Mercury Authors Index to Volume XXIII Check List of New Books Editorial Notes