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Loser for the League. First and last, "Fighting Jimmy" Cox was a newspaperman. At 28, he was already an influential publisher who took pride in the fact that his Dayton Daily News had racked up more than $1,000,000 in libel suits by its hard-hitting reporting. All the suits were later dropped. After buying the Miami Daily News in 1923, he covered Badman Al Capone's local activities so thoroughly that a gangster syndicate offered Cox $5,000,000 for the paper. The offer was turned down...
...vicinity"). He lived up to his Algeresque origins by delivering newspapers, quit school at 16 to become a teacher, soon took a job as cub-of-all-work on the old Middletown Signal. He always had "a passionate interest in newspapers." Turning passion into profit, he put the Dayton Daily News into the black in less than five years after he bought the paper (for $26,000) in 1898, bought the Dayton Journal-Herald (current circ. 93,290), the Springfield, Ohio morning Sun (17,874) and Daily News (30,044) while expanding into Georgia and Florida (where the Miami Daily...
Scopes, a high school biology teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was indicted in 1925 for teaching the Theory of Evolution in violation of state...
This afternoon, Fay-Cooper Cole, professor of Anthropology, emeritus, at the University of Chicago, will speak on "The Dayton Trial," with which he was connected...
This is sometimes known as the Scopes Trial after the Dayton, Tennessee high school teacher who was prosecuted by the state for teaching Darwin's "Origin of the Species" instead of the traditional biblical belief in biology...