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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...
...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 by which he has pushed General Shoe, in 18 years, from a single plant to the U.S.'s fourth biggest shoe operation...
...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...
...TIBBS MAXEY...
...governor of his old home state. The Democrats badly needed a candidate like Spaatz. It was almost certain that popular Republican Governor Edward Martin would challenge blustering Democratic Boss Joe Guffey for his 11-year-old seat in the U.S. Senate. This would leave either Chief Justice George W. Maxey of the State Supreme Court, or Lieut. Governor John C. Bell Jr., scion of a Philadelphia Main Line family, free to run for governor. Even though President Franklin Roosevelt carried Pennsylvania by 105,000 votes in the 1944 election, a Martin-Maxey or Martin-Bell ticket would be hard...