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This is the thrilling story of a full and exciting life. James M. Cox was a newspaper publisher at age twenty-eight, a congressman preceding World War I, and governor of Ohio during war years and in the crucial period of adjustment that followed. He was a presidential candidate and observer at dose range of most of the events and personalities which shaped the destiny of the United States for nearly fifty years. With Mr. Cox we go behind the scenes with the Wright Brothers, his neighbors in Dayton, Ohio, as they are about to launch the aeronautical era; we live through a half dozen vital Washington administrations, starting with President Taft's; we witness Cox's battle for vital prison reforms in 1912; we see the devastating Ohio floods of 1913 that swept into beautiful Miami Valley, nearly inundated the state and brought about one of the most brilliant flood-control projects of modern times. We witness the complete overhauling of the government in Ohio, a project which he fathered, along with the new constitution which implemented the whole program. We watch the strange antics of John Patterson, National Cash Register genius, who falls under the spell of a valet--and sues Mr. Cox for a million dollars for libel. We see at close range the intricate political campaign that elected President Wilson, and are told with new, never-before published facts the interesting story of the political conspiracy of 1919-1920, which led to the defeat of the League of Nations and the death of Woodrow Wilson. We get new slants on Warren Harding and his notorious betrayal by the Ohio gang; on William Jennings Bryan, John W. Davis and Al Smith, and on Roosevelt and the New Deal. We go with Cox to theWorld Monetary and Economic Conference in London in 1933, where he was vice chairman of the U.S. delegation, and hear an entirely new story of what actually happened there. This is a book of first-hand history, as seen and reported by one of the great trained observers of our times.
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James Middleton Cox was born on June 27, 1903 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. He was the son of James M. Cox, the Democratic party candidate for the presidency in 1920 and publisher of Ohio, Georgia, and Florida newspapers, and Mary Simpson Harding. Named at birth James McMahon, he accepted his father's preference to call himself James M. Cox, Jr.
Cox studied at Culver Military Academy in Indiana (1917 - 1920) and Cheshire (Connecticut) Academy (1922 - 1924) before entering Yale University, from which he graduated with a Ph. B. degree in 1928.
He began a newspaper career in 1929 as a police reporter on the Dayton Daily News, which was owned by his father.
During the next several years he held positions of increasing importance at the News, serving as general manager (1931 - 1938), assistant publisher (1938 - 1939), and assistant publisher and vice president (1939 - 1949).
He was on active duty in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945, becoming a lieutenant commander. Meanwhile, his father extended the family's newspapers outside Ohio; the first such venture was the acquisition of the Miami (Florida). News in 1931, followed by the purchase of the Atlanta Journal in 1939. The Cox newspaper interests in the course of the years embraced twelve papers: the Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Constitution, the Dayton Daily News and the Dayton Journal Herald, the Miami News, the Palm Beach (Florida) News, the West Palm Beach Post and the West Palm Beach Times, the Delray Beach News Journal, the Boynton Beach News Journal, the Springfield (Ohio) Daily News, and the Springfield Daily Sun. The Cox communications empire moved into radio in 1934 with the purchase of an Erie, Pennsylvania, station whose license was then transferred to Dayton.
Cox assumed responsibility for setting up the radio station, using the call letters WHIO, and hiring as manager J. Leonard Reinsch, later the head of all Cox broadcasting business. The station operated from downtown studios next door to the Dayton Daily News. Cox radio holdings widened to include five AM and four FM stations at the time of Cox's death. After his return from military duty, Cox not only actively managed newspaper and radio operations but also persuaded his father to enter the television field. The senior Cox first acquired stations in Dayton, Atlanta, and Miami. At the time of the junior Cox's death, the Cox empire comprised five television and thirty-four wholly or partially owned cable TV systems.
After the death of his father in 1957, Cox was responsible for seven newspapers, three radio stations, and two television stations. His father's will named him one of four trustees to operate the Cox newspapers, and Atlanta Newspapers, Inc. , named him board chairman. On the foundation that his father and he had already built, he developed the Cox interests into a giant media empire and conglomerate. Cox brought vision, foresight, and business acumen to his entrepreneurship. Possessed of a quick mind, he had a knack for selecting able executives and giving them great latitude. A particularly masterful choice was J. Leonard Reinsch, who became president of Cox Broadcasting Corporation, of which Cox was board chairman. Cox and Reinsch shared similar views as to the huge potential of the communications industry; against the opposition of numerous stations, they envisioned great growth for the community antenna systems.
He conducted business over lunch with his editors, individually and frequently. Only once did he encroach on editorial independence.
In 1972, believing the Democratic party candidate, George McGovern, "just won't do, " he ordered his editors to endorse Richard M. Nixon. Exposed by the New York Times, the order created a flap in the media; Cox later acknowledged it might have been wiser if the newspapers had "taken a walk" instead of supporting Nixon. One editor resigned, and another gave official endorsement to Nixon while making his personal endorsement of McGovern in his regular column. Ultimately, the Cox media empire became nationwide, with television stations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Charlotte, North Carolina, and the San Francisco-Oakland area; radio stations in Los Angeles, Dayton, Atlanta, and Miami and additional newspapers and a monthly magazine in Florida.
CATV systems were organized in fifteen states. The conglomerate grew as Cox interests absorbed the Atlanta franchise for the American Football League; United Technical Publications, involving a dozen magazines; a truck line and a steel warehouse in Georgia; eleven automobile auction houses; and a movie company, Bing Crosby Productions. Radio, television, and affiliated holdings were brought together as the aforementioned Cox Broadcasting Corporation. Its stock was admitted to the New York Stock Exchange in 1964; earnings the previous year had been $2. 4 million. In addition to his home in Dayton, he maintained apartments in Atlanta and Miami.
In 1973, the last full year before Cox's death, the net income of Cox Broadcasting Corp. exceeded $10. 1 million, and that of Cox Cable Communications, Inc. approached $1. 7 million.
Cox became chairman of a second major company, Cox Enterprises, Inc. , publisher of newspapers. A golfer, yachtsman, naturalist, and philanthropist, Cox headed a $20-million fund drive for Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. With family members, he gave over a million dollars to the University of Miami (Florida), of which he was a trustee, and where the science building is named for him.
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Cox married three times; first to Helen Rumsey on November 21, 1930; they were divorced in 1950. His second marriage, to Jan Streate in 1951, also ended in divorce. His third marriage was to Mrs. Devereaux Haigh Lippit, Jr. (née Betty Gage), of Atlanta, in 1958. He died in Atlanta, survived by his third wife; he had no children.
