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1939

January	Selected Articles England moves toward fascism: The new economic pattern By Eliot Janeway “Would Miss Tarbell see Mr. Rogers?” By Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell Fiction What have I? By Ruth Suckow Träumerei By Charles Cooke
February	Selected Articles The emperor of Japan By John Gunther The Social Security “reserve” swindle By John T. (John Thomas) Flynn Fiction Silver virgin By Benedict Thielen Poetry Rebel By Josephine Winslow Johnson Night in paradise By Martha Sherman Bacon
March	Selected Articles In an era of unreason By Nathaniel Peffer Hutchins of Chicago: Part I—the daring young man By Milton Sanford Mayer Fiction Setter and terrier By Preston Quadland Poetry Sonnet By Elizabeth Sampson Hoopes
April	Selected Articles Wanted: A sane defense policy By Oswald Garrison Villard No more excursions! The defense of democracy begins at home By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan Fiction Anschluss By Kay Boyle Poetry Hymn before night By Martha Keller Simple farewell By Conrad Aiken
May	Selected Articles The end of economic man in Europe By Peter Ferdinand Drucker A number of people (part I) By Edward Howard, Sir Marsh Fiction Atalanta in Cape Fair By Jessie Rehder Poetry From a town in a state of siege By Edna St. Vincent Millay The hidden valley By Craig Rice
June	Selected Articles Debt threatens democracy By Roy Addison Helton Europe's secret nightmare By Henry Cutler Wolfe Fiction The birthday By Thomas Wolfe Barn burning By William Faulkner Poetry In the night By Robert Nathan Beauty is earth's immortal carelessness By Anderson M. Scruggs
July	Selected Articles Germany would lose By Willson Woodside America's gunpowder women By Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker) Buck Fiction “They required of us a song” By Ralph Bates At the spa By Marjorie Muir Worthington Poetry Spade song By Gilbert Maxwell I think that there is laughter . . . By Robert Avrett
August	Selected Articles The return of Johnny Appleseed By Charles Allen Smart A prize fighter in the nineties By Edmund Rücker Fiction Brigham and Amelia: A story based on historical fact By Vardis Fisher The Presbyterian choir singers By William Saroyan Poetry Futility at dawn By Elford Caughey In time of crisis By Paul Engle
September	Selected Articles Giddy minds and foreign quarrels: An estimate of American foreign policy By Charles Austin Beard Foreign trade begins at home By John Chamberlain Fiction Mr. Hata pulls the strings By Charles Corbeau Poetry Two sonnets to ourselves By Barclay Hall
October	Selected Articles Old people: A rising national problem By Roy Addison Helton Roosevelt: The rich man's alibi By Elmer Holmes Davis Fiction The strange noise of Dr. Beldoon By Morris Markey Poetry Lost world By Hermann Hagedorn Surmise By Roland English Hartley
November	Selected Articles Broadcasting the outbreak of war By Elmer Holmes Davis Koussevitzky, Toscanini, Stokowski By Oscar Levant Fiction After many a summer: A novel in five parts (part one) By Aldous Huxley Seal Tregarthen's cousin By Margery Sharp Poetry Light By Hermann Hagedorn The going forth By Conrad Aiken
December	Selected Articles America's greatest need to-day: New investment and how it could be organized By Guy Greer Luke: II, 1 By Bernard Augustine De Voto Fiction The secret foe By Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull After many a summer: A novel in five parts (part two) By Aldous Huxley Poetry Box-car kid By Mary N.S. Whiteley Landscape in black and white By Constance Carrier

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