Word: jarman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every well-dressed man should have at least 30 pairs of shoes in his closet," says Nashville's debonair W. Maxey Jarman, 47. He talks that way because he makes the famed Jarman shoe and 23 other brands. Jarman breaks in a new pair himself once a week. He says it is the simplest way of keeping a check on the products of his company, the General Shoe Corp...
Last week Shoemaker Jarman broke in his fanciest pair yet. He bought out New Jersey's Johnston & Murphy Shoe Co., 101-year-old maker of top quality men's shoes, whose customers have included such men as Theodore Roosevelt, "Diamond Jim" Brady and Henry Ford. For J. & M., the deal meant a transfusion of some" much-needed capital. For General Shoe, whose top Jarman brand sells in the $10.95 to $18.95 range, it was the first move into the high-priced ($27.50439.50) field. For well-shod Maxey Jarman, it was the latest in a series of fast strides...
...company, founded in 1924 by Maxey Jarman's father, the late James Franklin Jarman, had only the small plant in Nashville when Maxey quit M.I.T. in his third year ("I didn't want to be an engineer") to work in the plant as a $10-a-week laborer. After a year of that, he went out selling shoes, sold so well that in 1933 his father made him president and stepped up to chairman (he died in 1938). Maxey took over at the bottom of the Depression, but instead of retrenching, he decided to expand. He started four...
...Jackson-had some pointed remarks to make against it. He would gladly vote for impeaching Acheson, he indicated. But the rider was "a trial by attainder . . . which says, in effect, that no man with a mustache can serve in public office." From the Democratic side, Oklahoma's John Jarman gibed at the G.O.P.: "I think the tactics being used today are exactly the tactics which have made the Republican Party so successful at remaining the minority party in our country...