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...James Franklin Jarman was making $35,000 a year in Nashville's J. W. Carter Shoe Co., which belonged to his cousins. According to legend, 52-year-old Shoeman Jarman, a Baptist deacon, felt unchristian making so much money and also found the Carters, though good folk, not devout enough. One day he went alone to Franklin, a tiny town 18 miles south of Nashville, rented a hotel room. All day long, Bible in hand, he communed with the Almighty. When he emerged he was convinced that it was God's will that he form his own shoe...
...Corp. (shoes), lunching at Hyde Park, sounded out the President on whether his company should accept a large order for shoes from the Italian Government. Were they ladies' slippers? the President asked ironically. No, Mr. Johnson replied, they might be used for army boots. Thereupon the President advised Shoeman Johnson not to accept the order...
Shoe Fruit. Conspicuous among tycoons for his liberal and generous labor policy is George F. Johnson of Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes), who lately declared, "Any man who dies rich dies disgraced." (TIME, Jan. 7). By means of a liberal bonus, Shoeman Johnson shared profits with his 19,000 employes long before NRA came along. Many an envious competitor predicted that the good feeling between Endicott Johnson and its employes would end when President Johnson opposed the 30-hr. week. Last year after May Day, while Communists were parading dourly elsewhere, Mr. Johnson's workers cheered ecstatically at a gradually...
...were Thor Solberg, 38, who was a motorcycle racer in Norway before coming eight years ago to the U. S.: and Petersen, 35, able radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided largely by Shoeman F. L. Emerson, in whose honor it was named Enna Jettick. Enna Jettick did not get as far as Harbor Grace. In a snowstorm near Darby's Harbor, N. F. the engine failed. Pilot Solberg just missed crashing into a hill, plunked the ship down into Placentia...
Some Denverites: Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, Shoeman William Lewis Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers, Paul Whiteman, Author Courtney Ryley Cooper, Silverman Simon Guggenheim whose son is named George Denver...