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...Samuel Edgerton Lumpkin, 35, World War II veteran (medical discharge), ex-football player and Speaker of the Mississippi House, can help it. Mississippians have guaranteed this popular, rising political figure powerful support if he will go after John Rankin...
...least reason why Ayer got the Army account was because lean, baldish, 43-year-old Clarence Lumpkin Jordan, Ayer partner, knows Army ways. Adman Jordan left Ayer in 1916 to join the French Army, later won the D. S. M. as first lieutenant in charge of ammunition dumps for the First Army of the A. E. F. in France. As a director of the Army Ordnance Association he has lectured big Philadelphia industrialists for years on the necessity of keeping their plants in shape to turn out ordnance, come...
...cabin, and where an engineer named A. H. Brisbane chose to drive a stake. Because the stake marked the end of the new Western & Atlantic Railroad, the town-to-be was called Terminus. By 1843 Terminus had ten families and one more railroad, and Governor Wilson Lumpkin had a daughter named Martha. So Terminus became Marthasville, and Statesman John C. Calhoun in 1845 saw what was to come: "Such is the formation of the country between the Mississippi Valley and the Southern Atlantic coast . . . that all the railroads which have been projected or commenced . . . must necessarily unite at a point...
Five years ago proletarian novels appeared, if not quite as frequently as the strikes they celebrated, at least more frequently than they have since. Leader of this radical literary movement was Grace Lumpkin, whose To Make My Bread was one of the first U. S. proletarian novels as well as one of the best. Last week she published her third novel, a slight, simple story of a Southern wedding, which is as far from the subject of her first book as a picket line is from a pulpit. The Wedding is an interesting novel in its own right...
What makes The Wedding an original and provocative piece of work is Grace Lumpkin's attitude toward the ceremony...