In this issue
Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. XXXIII No. 1
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THE PRESIDENCY: Presents
(National Affairs / THE PRESIDENCY)
THE CABINET: Hairy Man (National Affairs / THE CABINET)
HEROES: Useful Daughter (National Affairs / HEROES)
National Affairs: Boys from Brunete (National Affairs)
RELIEF: Pinky over Aubrey (National Affairs / RELIEF)
FARMERS: Silk Stocking Project (National Affairs / FARMERS)
POLITICAL NOTES: Self Yulegies (National Affairs / POLITICAL NOTES)
FISCAL: Eccles on Economics (National Affairs / FISCAL)
THE WEATHER: Cloudburst (National Affairs / THE WEATHER)
CRIME: Christmas Killings (National Affairs / CRIME)
WORLD
INTERNATIONAL: Christmas Present
(Foreign News / INTERNATIONAL)
Foreign News: Solidarity (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Who's Who At Sea (Foreign News)
GERMANY: Man of the Year, 1938 (Foreign News / GERMANY)
GREAT BRITAIN: Red Kitty (Foreign News / GREAT BRITAIN)
RUSSIA: White or Red (Foreign News / RUSSIA)
Foreign News: Reasons (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Marty's Mutiny (Foreign News)
FRANCE: Dutchman's Mistakes (Foreign News / FRANCE)
Foreign News: Case of the Dirty Shirt (Foreign News)
WAR IN SPAIN: Win the War (Foreign News / WAR IN SPAIN)
WAR IN CHINA: Money and Meaning (Foreign News / WAR IN CHINA)
SCIENCE
Science: I've Been So Busy
Science: Warmer World
Science: Seedless
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Medicine: A. M. A. Indicted
(Medicine)
Medicine: Kickapoo Cure (Medicine)
Medicine: Lydia Pinkham's New Dress (Medicine)
PRESS
The Press: Ledger to Brush-Moore?
(The Press)
RELIGION
Religion: Pensions, Pensioners
SPORT
Sport: Baby Bruin
Sport: Penn, Franklin & Mack
BUSINESS
STATE OF BUSINESS: Price Inequilibrium
(STATE OF BUSINESS) TRADE: No Hidden Treasures (TRADE)
THE GOVERNMENT: Carrier Cudgeling (THE GOVERNMENT)
Business: Private Pact
Business: Good Faith
Business: Corporate Catalysis
MANUFACTURING: Stroock's Fleece (MANUFACTURING)
Transport: Again, U. S. Lines (Transport)
Transport: Disaster on Wheels (Transport)
Transport: Buy-of-the-Season (Transport)
EDUCATION
Education: St. Paul's Fifth
Education: Semimonthly Tolerance
Education: I Must Stay
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Cinema: Shorts: Jan. 2, 1939
(Cinema)
Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 2, 1939 (Cinema)
Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 2, 1939 (Cinema)
Art: Pacific Pageant (Art)
Art: Enemy of the State (Art)
Radio: V. O. E. (Radio)
Radio: Programs Previewed: Jan. 2, 1939 (Radio)
Music: Spirituals to Swing (Music)
THEATRE: Show Business: Jan. 2, 1939 (Theatre / THEATRE)
Music: Nationalist (Music)
Theatre: Daddy (Theatre)
Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1939 (Theatre)
Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1939 (Theatre)
Books: Tom to T. S. (Books)
Books: Scatterfield Gang (Books)
Books: Unexpurgated (Books)
Books: Coulton's Cabbage (Books)
MILESTONES
Milestones, Jan. 2, 1939
PEOPLE
People, Jan. 2, 1939
LETTERS
Letters, Jan. 2, 1939

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