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Contents

This is football skill
8
Football
Battle of Mers-el-Kebir
14
Mers-el-Kebir, Attack on, 1940
Americans hit new high in political pep as presidential race nears finish
23
Presidential campaigns (1940)
Portrait
25
Lewis Williams Douglas (American government official.); 1894-1974
Hitler tries to talk France and Spain into a united Europe before U.S. elections
28
World War, 1939-1945 (Diplomatic history), Germany (Foreign relations)
Paris under German rule
39
Paris (France) (History, German occupation, 1940-1945)
Risley
45
Acrobats and acrobatism, WHITSON brothers
World of water
52
World War, 1939-1945 (Maps)
Upland game birds
56
Francis Lee Jaques; 1887-1969, Birds, Game birds, Hunting
New Hollywood
65
Motion picture actors and actresses

Choice before us
30
Wendell Lewis Willkie; 1892-1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt; 1882-1945
Labor's Lewis condemns Roosevelt, endorses Willkie as gallant American
32
John L. Lewis; 1880-1969, Wendell Lewis Willkie; 1892-1944, Labor unions (Political activities)
Campaign posters of both parties plaster U.S. walls
36
Posters
This chart will help keep election score
72
Elections
What kind of America do we the people want?
76
Americanism, Presidential campaigns (1940), United States
Life goes to a Halloween party
92
Halloween

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