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TITLE: THE READERS DIGEST
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ISSUE DATE: October 1940; Vol 37, No. 222
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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America's First Duty By Wendell L. Willkie. [Original to this issue -- "The Reader's Digest asked Mr. Willkie to state the basic practical problem of this moment in America. Here is his response"]
The Inner Threat -- Our Own Softness By Roy Helton.
Remember The Alamo By Edwin Muller.
A Favorite Poem Of Berton Braley -- The Poem? -- American Laughter By Kenneth Allan Robinson.
No Pampered Pets In Our Home.
Lady Fuhrer Uber Alles By Peter Engelmann.
The Quiz Kids By J. P. Mcevoy.
Jungles Can Be Helpful By Loring A. Schuler.
Do Animals Think? By Gustav Eckstein.
What On Order Means By Donald Wilhelm.
You Become Someone -- Alone By Mary Ellen Chase.
Yes We Have Fifth Columnists By Edmond Taylor.
What You Don't Know About Wendell Willkie By Dorothy Dunbar Bromley.
American Youth Speaks Up By Dr. George Gallup. [Original to this issue!]
Ingenuities Of The X Ray By Webb Waldron.
Train Conscripts For War And For Peace By John Erskine.
Molasses Rides The Range By Upton Close.
Money To Burn By Myron Stearns.
Spokane's Civic Horse Trader By Frank J. Taylor.
Why I Don't Go To Church By Channing Pollock.
The Bright Face Of Danger By Rebecca West. [Original to this issue -- English Men and Women responses to the danger and daily air raids and bombings]
San Francisco's Cure For Strikes By Frank J. Taylor.
Big Business On The River By Ben Lucien Burman.
Where Your Red Cross Dollars Go By Don Wharton.
In A Great Man's Shoes By Walter B. Pipkin. [Original to this issue!]
The Judge That Didn't Throw The Book By Karl Detzer.
Miniature Libraries Of Tomorrow -- Micro printing By Marvin Lowenthal.
The German High Command States... By Ernest R. Pope.
America's Chief Scout -- Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. -- On America's First Boy Scout ( James E. West ). [Interesting Article!]
A New American Art By Maxine Davis.
Let's Drive To Alaska! By John D. Greene.
The Most Unforgettable Character I've Ever Met (His Father, ) By Stephen Vincent Benet. [Oringinal to this issue, fascinating portrait of his own father!]
Mother Of The Guerrillas By Dean S. Jennings.
"The Dead Hand Of Bureaucracy" By Lawrence Sullivan.
"I Drove An Ambulance" By Harold B. Willis.
Pan-American Unity Is Now MORE Than A Phrase By Enrique De Lozada.

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