Morris L. Cooke "Industrial Management" Monograph on Microfilm
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Dates
- 1909
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
Morris Llewellyn Cooke (May 11, 1872-March 5, 1960) was an influential American engineer. Born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he is one of eight children to William Harvey Cooke and Elizabeth Richmond Marsden.
Cooke graduated from Lehigh University with a Mechanical Engineering degree. He served as the director of the Rural Electrification Administration from May 1935 through March 1937. In 1940 Cooke became a technical consultant for the Office of Production Management. He headed up the War Labor Board panel in 1943. President Harry S. Truman appointed Cooke as chairman of the Water Resources Policy Commission in 1950.
Cooke was recognized for his work on obtaining inexpensive electricity for residential use, better labor-management relations, and the conservation of land and water resources.
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0.11 cubic feet
Quantity:
1 microfilm reel
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- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, February 10, 2016
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, February 10, 2016
- Title
- Cooke, Morris L. "Industrial Management" Monograph on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- February 10, 2016
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- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
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Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository