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<chronList xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4">
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1894-06-28">1894, June 28</date>
<event>Born, Hopkinsville, Kentucky</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1915">1915</date>
<event>B.A., Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1915">1915</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1921">1921</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Methodist Missionary to Java</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1917">1917</date>
<event>Married Grace Ison</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1923">1923</date>
<event>B.D., Drew University</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1924">1924</date>
<event>S.T.M. (Magna cum laude), Union Theological Seminary</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1924">1924</date>
<event>A.M., Columbia University</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1924">1924</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1927">1927</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Professor of Hebrew and the history of religion at the
Scarritt College for Christian Workers, Nashville, Tennessee</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1927">1927</date>
<event>Member of faculty of Fisk University, Nashville,
Tennessee</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1929">1929</date>
<event>Publication of
Youth Looks at World
Peace: a Story of the First World Youth Peace Congress</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1929">1929</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1933">1933</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Executive Secretary of the Fellowship of
Reconciliation</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date>1930s</date>
<event>Member of various left-wing organizations</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1934">1934</date>
<event>Publication of
Fascism (with Ruth
E. Shallcross) and
Traffic in Death: a Few
Facts Concerning the International Munitions Industry</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1935">1935</date>
<chronItemSet>
<event>Vice President of Consumers' Research, Inc.</event>
<event>Publication of
Partners in Plunder: the
Cost of Business Dictatorship</event>
</chronItemSet>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1936">1936</date>
<chronItemSet>
<event>Publication of
Guinea Pigs No
More</event>
<event>Married Ruth E. Shallcross</event>
</chronItemSet>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1938">1938</date>
<event>Publication of
Odyssey of a Fellow
Traveler</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1938">1938</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1945">1945</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Director of Research for the Committee on Un-American
Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1945">1945</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1964">1964</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Lecturer; author of anticommunist articles; speaker before
Federal and state committees investigating communism; and consultant for John
A. Clements Associates, the Hearst public relations firm</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1949">1949</date>
<event>Married Ruth Inglis</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1953-06">1953, June</date>
<event>Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government
Operations of the U.S. Senate</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1953-07">1953, July</date>
<event>Publication of
Reds and Our
Churches in
American
Mercury</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1966-07-16">1966, July 16</date>
<event>Died, New York City</event>
</chronItem>
</chronList>
<citation xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4">From the guide to the J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated, (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)</citation>
</biogHist>