Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard College Observatory will wind up the second week of lectures at the Academy's public astronomical exhibition at 28 Newbury St., Boston, with a talk by Robert E. Cox at 11 a.m. Saturday...
When the two competing newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, offered to sell out to Publisher James M. Cox last summer, he was "a bit shocked." Ohio's spry, old ex-governor and Democratic presidential candidate (1920) doesn't "like newspaper monopolies." But a careful look at the books changed his mind. His own evening paper, the Dayton Daily News (circ. 96,000), was financially sound. The rival morning Journal (circ. 41,000) and evening Herald (circ. 66,000), both published by ex-Marine Colonel Lewis B. Rock, were...
Newsprint costs and wages were too high for Rock, who still owed about $1,000,000 on the purchase of the papers in 1935. Though monopoly was bad for the press, Cox and Rock decided heavy debts were worse. "If a press is to be independent," said Cox, "it has to be financially stable." Last week, for an undisclosed price, Cox bought the Republican Journal and the independent Herald, and merged them into one morning paper (the Journal Herald). That left the evening field to his New Dealing News, and made Dayton (pop. 300,000), Ohio's 6th largest...
...editor & publisher of the new paper, Owner Cox picked conservative Dwight ("Deke") Young, 55, longtime editor of the old Journal and Herald. He would be free to support any candidates and policies he wanted to. The News and the Journal Herald would also have separate plants and separate, competitive news staffs. Owner Cox said he had "instructed the managing editors to beat each other's brains...
...Atlanta Journal, the Miami News, and his three radio stations. His efficient, reticent son, James Jr., 45, is second in command. The Governor does most of his editorial direction from his Dayton home, dictates an occasional editorial on world affairs and reads every word in all the Cox papers. Says Publisher Cox: "I reserve the right to complain...