Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than two years, rumors have been abroad that a big newspaper deal would shortly pop up in Atlanta. Last week that rumor ripened into fact. Dayton Publisher James Middleton Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio. Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1920 against Ohio Publisher Warren Gamaliel Harding, stepped from a plane in Atlanta to announce that he had bought two papers: the Atlanta Journal and William Randolph Hearst's Atlanta Georgian. With them he got the Journal's 50,000-watt radio station, WTSB, and a 40% interest in another, less important transmitter, WAGA...
...Journal outfit cost Publisher Cox $1,943,685 in cold cash (for a 70% interest), plus an agreement to pay $761,400 more for the remaining 30% of its stock. For the Georgian, he gave Hearst $800,000, of which $300,000 was for good will. So Mr. Cox's Atlanta purchases cost him a total of approximately $3,500,000. To Cleveland Financier M. Smith Davis, for negotiating 1939's biggest newspaper deal, went a commission of over...
...days after Cox arrived in Atlanta to take charge of the Journal, Atlanta's citizens crowded into a theatre to celebrate the premiere of a picture based on the work of a onetime Journal reporter: Margaret Mitchell (see p. 30). Cracked newsmen as Cox alighted at Candler Field: "He must have bought the Journal so he could get a ticket to the opening...
Caught short with Stacy Hulse in the penalty box, Captain Coleman, Skip Ervin and Warren Winslow led a series of sorties which almost succeeded in scoring. Later when Stew Iglehart of St. Nicks was in the bastille, Bob Cox, assisted by Gordy McGrath, made the period's single score...
Gordy McGrath, Demmy Lloyd, who captained last year's Freshman team, Dick Noone, Bob Cox, and Bill Claflin may also see service...