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TITLE: THE READERS DIGEST
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ISSUE DATE: May 1940; Vol 36, No. 217
CONDITION: Size approx 6" X 9", Digest sized magazine. COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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Roosevelt Up To Date By Marquis W. Childs.
Our Job In The Far East By Nathaniel Peffer.
Escape To The Wilderness By Helena Huntington Smith.
Self-Portrait Of The American People.
A Goal For The American Family By Franzy Eakin & William Hard.
Awakener Of The Amazon -- John James -- By Desmond Holdridge.
My Earliest Teachers By Mary Ellen Chase.
Whither Father Coughlin? By J. P. Mcevoy.
War Slang 1940 (Flap, Blitzflu, Scrounge, Brown Off, Ace, Blimp, Cootie Etc...) By H. L.Mencken. [Oringinal to this issue -- NOT A REPRINT, in a series "Notes on the American language, II"]
Youth Meets Motorcar In School By Webb Waldron.
What Substitute For War? By Charles A. Lindbergh.
The Road Not Taken By David L. Cohn.
Do You Act Your Part? By Maud Scheerer.
Foreign Trade Is A Two Way Street By Thomas W. Lamont.
These Women Could Take It By Edward M. Barrows.
Hitler's Salesman By William D. Bayles.
Perpetual Emotion By Katherine Best.
Speeding Up Nature By Frank J. Taylor.
The Fruits Of Industrial Peace By Harold J. Ruttenberg.
Nurse Takes The Cure By Henry H. Curran.
Uncle Sam's Silver Scandal By S. F. Porter.
Grace At Table By John Richards.
The Future Of The CCC By C. S. Marsh.
My Aunt Batty -- The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met By Kathleen Norris. [Oringinal to this issue!]
The Veteran's War Against The Treasury By Stanley High.
Missouri Plows Crime Under By Don Eddy.
Maternity Floor By Bernard Devoto.
Wooden Plated Success By Loring A. Schuler. [Oringinal to this issue!]
Gargantua The Killer By J. B. T. Scripps.
How The Surgeon Sews By Esther G. Price.
Gutzon Borglum - The Man Who Carves Mountains By Samuel Lubell And Walter Everett. [NICE profile of the man who careved Mount Rushmore!]
Spring Is In The Air By David Grayson.
Since Brigham Young By M. R. Werner.
Stalin: Czar Of All The Russians, By Eugene Lyons.
Children Of God, By Vardis Fisher.

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