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Than the morning News of Canton, Ohio has had few newspapers of wider fame. In 1926 it became a national figure when its editor, Don R. Mellett, was assassinated for his crusade against an alliance of the police and the underworld in Canton, (TIME, July 26; Aug. 2, 1926). In 1927 that crusade was posthumously rewarded with the Pulitzer prize. Yet the News did not pay. Its owner, James M. Cox, Ohio's ofttime (1913-15, 1917-19, 1919-21) Governor and the Democratic Presidential nominee of 1920, had bought it as a rundown property from Henry Holiday Timken...
...Lawrence University (Canton...
...nearly broke Debs's heart. Cried he: "I abhor war!" To him it was purely a Capitalist fight. At Canton. Ohio, in June 1918 he shrilled loudest against the military policies of the U. S.. was indicted and convicted of violating the Espionage Law, of obstructing the Draft and giving aid and comfort to the enemy. His sentence: ten years in jail which the Supreme Court sustained unanimously in March 1919. First he was comfortably imprisoned at Moundsville. W. Va.. then transferred to Atlanta where he nearly died in confinement. President Harding freed him in December...
Alternate medals in this competition have been awarded to Philip Henry Cohen '32, of Sandy Hook, New Jersey; Charles Francis Elliott '31, of Holly Springs, Georgia; Wilbur Ellis Esber '31, of Canton, Ohio; Frederick Charles Fiechter Jr. '32, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; John Francis Harding '30, of Pittsfield; David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey; Armistead Buckner Rood '31, of Concord; and Francis Beattie Thurber '30, of New York. These medals were also given to the manager, James Stanley Jennison '30, of Cambridge, and to his assistant Justin Robert Wolf '32, of Omaha, Nebraska...
...Canton, Ohio, John Routz, 11, disputed the ownership of a chocolate Easter rabbit with Charles Christeen. After brawling in the street, Master Routz followed Master Christeen to his home, forced open he door, was shot dead by his adversary...