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...Memphis last week Rt. Rev. James Matthew Maxon, Episcopal bishop of Tennessee, sat up in the sickbed where he had lain for 18 days ailing of influenza, and for the first time learned some-thing that all the rest of his diocese knew. Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Memphis, was entering the third week of a fast which he hoped would prove that "the soul is above the need of material life" (TIME...
...well-beloved Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, onetime (1919-25) Presiding Bishop; chancellor of the University of the South (Sewanee); after long illness; in Sewanee. A courageous, quick-witted broad-churchman, he was one of Tennessee's two outstanding citizens (the other: Cordell Hull). Rt. Rev. James Matthew Maxon, 60, hardworking, cigar-smoking Bishop Coadjutor, automatically succeeds...
Married. Grant Wood, Iowa artist (American Gothic, Dinner For Threshers -TIME, Dec. 24); and Mrs. Sara Sherman Maxon, music teacher in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where both grew up; in Minneapolis...
...Goodwin Plan, the Christian Century got Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston and Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman of Manhattan, both famed Methodists, to recant. Not to be shamed out of their support for this temple & trade hookup, however, were Episcopal Bishops George Craig Stewart (Chicago) and James Matthew Maxon (Tennessee); Methodist Bishops Francis John McConnell (New York) and Ernest Lynn Waldorf (Chicago...
Sirs: TIME MAY SECOND STATES IN ERROR MAJOR GENERAL SMITH TO HEAD MILITARY DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH STOP HE CHOSE TO BE SUPERINTENDENT OF SEWANEE MILITARY ACADEMY A PREPARATORY SCHOOL RUN UPON A MILITARY BASIS . . . STOP ACADEMY AND UNIVERSITY ARE CONNECTED BUT LARGELY THROUGH FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATORS. . . . JAMES M. MAXON...