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Why Ten Thousand Died • Fletcher Pratt • (ar)
Why Tennis? • Fred B. Alexander • (ar)
Why Terry ? • Rose Darrough • (pm)
Why Tete Rouge Took a Hand • Frank Giolma • (ss)
Why Tham Never Reformed • Johnston McCulley • (ss)
Why the “5th Column”? • L. U. Reavis • (ia)
Why the American Farmer Is Rich • Isaac F. Marcosson • (ar)
Why the American League Wins • Stanley Frank & Waite Hoyt,narr. • (ar)
Why the Army Tried To Railroad the Green Berets • Henry Rothblatt • (ar)
Why the Auto Bubble Doesn’t Burst • James H. Collins • (ar)
Why the Babes Still Cry for Johnny Ray • Bert Mason • (ar)
Why the Bat Flies at Night • Jenny Offill • (ss)
Why the Birth Rate Is Decreasing • Anonymous • (ms)
Why the Black Cat Winked • Sophie Swett • (ss)
Why the Bombers Got Home • Robert S. Fenton • (ss)
Why the Business Fails • Frank Wilbur Mann • (ar)
Why the Buzzard Boards • Eli Shepperd • (ar)
Why the Captain Hates the Sea • Wilbur Ross • (ar)
Why the Cars Collided • Helen Fairchild Duke • (ss)
Why the Case Was Closed • Nalbro Bartley • (ss)
Why the Charcoal in Grainy World War 2 Movies Always Seems More Blue Than Black • Lyn Lifshin • (pm)
Why the Chinaman Treated • Misc. • (ms)
Why the Churches Have Failed • Shaw Desmond • (ar)
Why the Circus Went Astray • Edgar Franklin • (ss)
Why the Clock Struck One • Sophie Swett • (ss)
Why the Convict Broke Parole • M. F. Cunningham • (ss)
Why the Country Bank? • Samuel Crowther & Craig B. Hazlewood • (ar)
Why the Death Machine Could Die Laughing • Chandler Brossard • (ar)
Why the Democratic Party Cannot Be Reformed • Albert Griffin • (ar)
Why the Democrats of 1896 and 1900 Should Support Parker and Dawes in 1904 • William Jennings Bryan • (ar)
Why the Doctor Came • Richard Barry • (ss)
Why the Doctor Fled • Misc. • (ms)
Why the Dramatic Critic? • Littell McClung • (ar)
Why the Earth Was Not Invaded • Henry Gregor Felsen • (ss)
Why the Elephant Laughed • Robert Carlton Brown • (ss)
Why the Fan Man? • Charles D. Hornig • (ar)
Why the Fitzaldens Are Web-Toed • Hugh S. Fullerton • (ss)
Why the Furnace Went Out • L. M. • (ms)
Why the Giraffe Has a Long Neck • Louis Robinson, M.D. • (ar)
Why the Gun Fighter • The Editor • (ed)
Why the Gunner Went Ashore • Bartimeus • (ss)
Why the Indian Paints His Face • Theodore Dreiser • (ar)
Why the Ingénue Lied • Ethel Barrington • (ss)
Why the Japs Hate the Nazis • Robert Bellaire • (ar)
Why the Jute Burned • Edgar Franklin • (ss)
Why the Left Wing Fears Dewey • Stanley High • (ar)
Why the Limited Was Late • David A. Martin • (ss)
Why the Lodestone was Robbed • T. Albert Mace • (ss)
Why the Major Married • William J. Lampton • (ss)
Why the Maple Makes Maple Sugar • René Bache • (ar)
Why the Marquis Gave Up Coin Collecting • Harry Campbell Smith • (ss)
Why the Miners Never Came Back • Anonymous • (ar)
Why the Ministry Resigned • John Ennar • (ss)
Why the Mulberry’s Berry Is Purple • Edna Covert Plummer • (ss)
Why the Muscle Men Make Lousy Lovers • Lisa Holmes • (ar)
Why the National League Beats the American • Sam Crane • (ar)
Why the New Theatre Is New • John Corbin • (ar)
Why the Office Boy Is Scarce • James H. Collins • (ar)
Why the Pacific Slope Hates the Japanese / The people of the Pacific Coast seem to prefer a fight to unrestricted immigration of the Japanese. The Westerners have been much criticized for this attitude by folks who do not live in the West. Every American should understand this question. Here for the first time is set forth simply and without favor the truth about the conditions which make the Westerner hate the Japanese • Will Irwin • (ar)
Why the Pea Ridge Railroad Was Not Built • W. F. Bradshaw, Jr. • (ar)
Why the Peterkins Had a Late Dinner • Lucretia P. Hale • (sl)
Why the Police Subaltern Fled Jagadhri • James Oliver Curwood • (ss)
Why the Pony Ran • Laura Mason • (ss)
Why the Press Hates Reagan • Roy M. Cohn • (ar)
Why the Price of Coffee Increases • Lewis Edwin Theiss • (ar)
Why the RAF Is Winning the War in the Air • J. Wentworth Day • (ar)
Why the Red Cross Wants $50,000,000 • Anonymous • (ed)
Why the Republican Party Should Retain Control of the Government • James A. Tawney • (ar)
Why the Reverend Percy Hopkins Quit • Ralph Myrick • (ss)
Why the Road Went North of Hockomock • Hugh Pendexter • (ss)
Why the Rolling Stone Rolled On • James W. Egan • (ss)
Why the Rules? • Stephen Epler • (ar)
Why the Russians Act That Way • Paul Hunter • (ed)
Why the $29,000,000.00 Fine Was Reversed • Melville Davisson Post • (ar)
Why the Secretary Came Late • A. W. Rolker • (ss)
Why the Ship Stopped • Frank K. Scribner • (ss)
Why the Sky is Blue • Walter George Bell • (ar)
Why the Sky Is Blue • Ruppert Carlin • (ss)
Why the Small Investor Loses • Charles G. Dawes • (ar)
Why the Solaroids Abandoned the Proposed Newarkon • Gerry de la Ree • (ss)
Why the Sun Hurried verse • Richard Kilroy • (ss)
Why The Tears, Miss Earhart? • Rick DeMarinis • (ss)
Why the True Fishermen Always Wear Green Evening Coats • G. K. Chesterton • (ss)
Why the Turkey-Buzzard Is Bald-Headed / An “Uncle Remus” Story • Joel Chandler Harris • (ss)
Why the Ulv Never Came Back • J. J. Bell • (ss)
Why the United States Needs a Big Navy • Josephus Daniels • (ar)
Why the Vote Doesn’t Get Out • Katharine Dayton • (ar)
Why the Waves are Wild • William Sanford • (ms)
Why the Weekly Planet Died • Alfred Henry Lewis • (ss)
Why the West? • Editor • (ed)
Why the White Elephant • Charles E. Van Loan • (cl)
Why the White Elephant? (baseball) • Charles E. Van Loan • (cl)
Why the Woman Always Wins • Luigi Pirandello • (ar)
Why the Woman’s Party Is for It • Inez Haynes Irwin • (ar)
Why the World Is Full of Colors • Karl Eugen Guthe, Ph.D. • (ar)
Why There Are Pages and Why They Must Turn • Robert Bringhurst • (es)
Why There Are So Many Languages • William R. Palmer • (ss)
Why There’s a Good Time Coming • A. M. Low • (ar)
Why These Bribes? • Anonymous • (ed)
Why They Call It Commercial Television • Raymond Palmer • (ar)
Why They Can’t Come Back • Ned Brown & Jack Dempsey,narr. • (ar)
Why They Come • Mary Grace Quackenbos • (ar)
Why They Don’t Get Together • Jesse Rainsford Sprague • (ar)
Why They Don’t Hate Harry • John Kobler • (ar)
Why They Go • Wallace Irwin • (pm)
Why They Laughed • J. R. H. • (ts)
Why They Leave Their Jobs • Charles J. McGuirk • (ar)
Why They Lost • Terrell Love Holliday • (pm)
Why They Married • Marie Belloc Lowndes • (ss)
Why They Stay Up • Frank Tinsley • (ar)
Why They Were Called Archies • Anonymous • (ms)
Why They Were Married • Anonymous • (ss)
Why Things are Done • Misc. • (cl)
Why Things Are Done • Misc. • (cl)
Why Things are Done • Misc. • (cl)
Why This Headache? • Stanley M. Rinehart, M.D. • (ar)
Why Tim Mulcahey Came Home • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
Why Tolstoy Gave up Meat, Tobacco, and Spirits • Leo Tolstoy, Jnr. • (ar)
Why Tom Was Not a Gentleman • W. Bert Foster • (ss)
Why Traction Engines Have Grooved Wheels • Anonymous • (ms)
Why Trim a Christmas Tree? • Everett Rhodes Castle • (ss)
Why Turkish Women Like the Harem • Arthur McIlroy • (ar)
Why U.S. had to have Those Bases • Rosita Forbes • (ar)
Why Ugly Women are Happy • One of Them • (ms)
Why UN raps US on Vice Girls • Loren Spangler • (ar)
Why Unborn Babies Die • Madelin Alk • (ar)
Why Valves Burn Off • Harold Jackson • (ar)
Why Vegas • J. R. Gaver • (ar)
Why Violet Kennard Left the Stage • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
Why Virgins Are Necessary • Mike Grant • (ar)
Why Vivisection? • H. G. Chancellor, M.P. • (ar)
Why Wait? • A. J. Fryer • (ss)
Why Wall Street Boils • Roger W. Babson • (ar)
Why Walter Changed His Mind • Henrietta H. Holdich • (vi)
Why Was He Right? • George M. A. Cain • (ss)
Why Was There a Murder on Pearl Street? • George Foxhall • (n.)
Why We Act? • M. Martin • (ar)
Why We Are Going Back to Paradise Island • Marilyn Hacker • (pm)
Why We Are Here • James Agate • (ar)
Why We Are Lawbreakers • Misc. • (ms)
Why We Are Opposed to “Menckenism” • Editor • (ed)
Why We Behave Like Human Beings • Corinne Rockwell Swain • (pm)
Why We Blush • Brenda Ueland • (ar)
Why We Burned Them Out • Victor Boesen • (ar)
Why We Crave Horror Movies • Stephen King • (ar)
Why We Did Not Picket the White House • Carrie Chapman Catt • (ar)
Why We Employ Aged and Handicapped Workers • Edsel Ford • (ar)
Why We Fall in Love • Naomi Mitchison • (ar)
Why We Get on Each Other’s Nerves • Nina Purdy • (ar)
Why We Get Tired • Murray Campbell • (ia)
Why We Give Thanks • Daisy D. Stephenson • (ss)
Why We Have Cereals • Lulu G. Graves • (ar)
Why We Have No Parcels Post • Allan L. Benson • (ar)
Why We Have Railroad Wrecks • Frank H. Spearman • (ar)
Why We Honour the King • Charles Pilley • (ar)
Why We Laugh • Sylvester Kennedy • (ar)
Why We Left the Farm • Anonymous • (ar)
Why We Live • Sachka“ • (es)
Why We Lost China: The Feud Between Stilwell and Chiang • Joseph Alsop • (ar)
Why We Lost China: The Foredoomed Mission of General Marshall • Joseph Alsop • (ar)
Why We Lost China: We Opened the Door for the Communists • Joseph Alsop • (ar)
Why We Love Lincoln • James Creelman • (ar)
Why We Make Jerry Falwell Mad • Richard Yao • (ar)
Why We Must Explore Outer Space • Dr. Mark R. Chartrand • (ar)
Why We Must Prepare for Hell in the Air in the Next War • George Sylvester Viereck • (ar)
Why We Need 4,000 Airplanes Right Away • Robert Lee Bullard • (ar)
Why We Need a Merchant Marine • Agnes C. Laut • (ar)
Why We Need a Two-Ocean Navy • Henry A. Wiley • (ar)
Why We Need Free Ports • Thomas Walker Page • (ar)
Why We Need Illegal Aliens • Nick Thimmesch • (ar)
Why We Need Politicians • Franklin D. Roosevelt • (ar)
Why We Never Married • Beryl Foster • (ar)
Why We Picked Dartmouth • Pete Martin & Peter Bird Martin • (ar)
Why We Should Be Glad That Water-Pipes Burst in Winter • Anonymous • (ms)
Why We Should Not Drink with Meals • Sarah Tyson Rorer • (ar)
Why We Should Try to Stand Erect • Harry Lyman Koopman • (ar)
Why We Turned Them Down • Edward Chamberlain, Jr. • (ar)
Why We Wear Funny Hats • Rosita Forbes • (ar)
Why We Will Marry the Next Man Who Asks Us, or What Have You? • Katharine Dayton • (ar)
Why We Wish to Prepare • Theodore Roosevelt • (ar)
Why We Won’t Have Inflation • Julius Hirsch • (ar)
Why We’ll Have Enough to Eat • Claude R. Wickard • (ar)
Why Were We Caught Napping at Pearl Harbor? • Seth W. Richardson • (ar)
Why Westenra? • Mark Pinkerton • (ar)
Why Wife Trading Is Becoming More Popular Than Ever • Harve Alison • (ar)
Why Williams Stayed • John Austin Schetty • (ss)
Why Williamsport? • Douglas Pierce • (n.)
Why Wilster Elspleet’s Ship Went Into Church • Sarah J. Prichard • (ss)
Why Winter Comes • S. L. Bensusan • (ar)
Why Winter Wheat Killed • Galen M. Arbuckle • (ar)
Why Wives Go South • Laura Whetter • (ss)
Why Wives Wander • Joel Michael • (ar)
Why Women Are Paid Less Than Men • Richard Barry • (ar)

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