Marshall E. Dimock Papers | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Collection Overview

Title: Marshall E. Dimock Papers

Extent: 26.9 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: In seven series. The first through third, sixth and seventh series are arranged alphabetically. The fourth and fifth series are arranged chronologically.

Date Acquired: 07/12/1972

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection includes Mr. Dimock's personal and professional correspondence, subject files related to Mr. Dimock's work, notes and drafts of speechs and articles written by Mr. Dimock, business accounts, and periodicals and books.

Collection Historical Note

Marshall Edward Dimock was born in San Bernadino, California, October 24, 1903. He was graduated from Pomona College with honors in history in 1925 and received his Ph.D. from John Hopkins University in 1928, after which he became instructor (1928-30) and assistant professor (1930-32) of political science at the University of California at Los Angeles. During 1932-33, Mr. Dimock was awarded a Social Science Traveling Fellowship, spent a year in France and England and as a result of this published British Public Utilities and National Development.

In 1932 Dimock was appointed Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of Chicago, a post he held until 1941. While at the University of Chicago, he completed studies of, and published monographs relating to, public corporations, inland waterways and principles of administration. He served as Second Assistant Secretary of Labor (1938-40), his main duty being chairman of the Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Immigration Administration. He became Associate Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service when that organization was transferred to the Justice Department in 1940 and retained this position until 1942. From 1942 to 1944 Dimock served as Director of the Recruitment and Manning Organization of the War Shipping Administration, which was responsible for insuring that manpower was available for the U.S. Merchant Marine.

In 1944 Mr. Dimock became Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and remained in this position until 1948. During this period he served as a consultant to the War Department (1944) and to the General Accounting Office (1946-48). From 1949 to 1950 he was a member of the Vermont State Legislature. In 1953-54 he was also a consultant to the Administrative Staff College in England. Dimock was appointed professor and head of the Department of Government at New York University in 1955 and remained in this position until 1962.

In addition, he was a member of the Unitarian-Universalist Association, a religious organization of which he was moderator (lay leader) from 1961 to 1964; President of the Shinner Foundation (1947-50) which promoted research on how to preserve small businesses; International and American Political Science Associations; American Society of Public Administration; Society for the Advancement of Management (President of the Washington Chapter, 1941-1942, National Director, 1942-43, National Vice President, 1945-46); Phi Sigma Alpha (National President, 1962-64); and Director and member of Executive Committee, United Seaman’s Service (Chairman, 1946-56).

Administrative Information

Repository: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Access Restrictions: These papers contain documents restricted in accordance with Executive Order 11652; also material which might be used to embarrass, harass or injure living persons has been closed.

Use Restrictions: Mr. Dimock’s copyright interest in these papers has been donated to the United States Government.

Acquisition Source: Marshall E. Dimock

Acquisition Method: Marshall E. Dimock donated his papers to the Roosevelt Library on July 12, 1972.

Related Materials: Material relating to Marshall Dimock will be found in PPF 6287 (Marshall Dimock) and in the Oscar Cox papers (Marshall Dimock). Material related to his service in the government will be found in OF 15 (Department of Labor); OF 25-1 (War Department-Panama Canal Zone); OF 136 (Radio); and OF 407 (Labor).

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: General Correspondence, 1936-1970],
[Series 2: Subject File, 1938-1969],
[Series 3: Speech and Article File],
[Series 4: Speaking Engagements File, 1941-1966],
[Series 5: Periodicals and Booklets File],
[Series 6: Publications of Marshall E. Dimock, 1929-1971],
[Series 7: Publications of Gladys Ogden Dimock, 1946-1971],
[All]

Series 6: Publications of Marshall E. Dimock, 1929-1971

Sub-Series 1: Books

Congressional Investigating Committees (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md.) 183 pp., 1929
British Public Utilities and National Development (George Allen and Unwin, London-Chicago) 340 pp., 1933
Government-Operated Enternprises in the Panama Canal Zone (University of Chicago Press, Chicago) 248 pp., 1934
Developing America's Waterways: The Administration of the Inalnd Waterways Corporation (University of Chicago Press, Chicago) 123 pp., 1935
Essays on the Law and Practice of Governmental Administration, edited jointly with C. G. Haines (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md.) 321 pp., 1935
Regional Factors in National Planning and Development, with John M. Gaus, Jacob Crane, and George Renner (Washington, National Resources Planning Board)., 1935
The Frontiers of Public Administration, with John M. Gaus and Leonard D. White (University of Chicago Press, Chicago) 146 pp., 1936
Modern Politics and Administration: A Study of the Creative State (American Book Company, New York) 440 pp., 1937
Bureaucracy and Trusteeship in Large Corporations, with Howard K. Hyde (Government Printing Office, Washington) 114 pp. (Temporary National Economic Committee)., 1940
The Immigration and Naturalization Service: Report of the Secretary of Labor's Committee on Administration Procedure, with Henry M. Hart, Jr. and John McIntire (Mimeographed) 159 pp. (Also included as momgraph in Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure, Washinton, D.C., 194, 1940
The Executive in Action (Harper & Brothers, New York) 276 pp., 1945
The Reorganization of Congress, with George B. Galloway (Washington, American Political Science Association)., 1945
American Government in Action, with Gladys Ogden Dimock (Rinehart & Company, Inc., New York), second edition 1951, 1008 pp., 1946
Business and Government (Henry Holt & Company, New York) 840 pp., 1949
American Government in Action, with Gladys Ogden Dimock (Rinehart & Company, Inc., New York), second edition, 1951
Free Enterprise and the Administrative State (University of Alabama Press) 179 pp., 1951
Goals for Political Science (William Sloane Associates, New York), editor and contributor, 302 pp., 1951
The Teaching of the Social Sciences in the United States, joint authorship, UNESCO, Paris., 1952
Business and Government (Henry Holt & Company, New York) revised edition -, 1953
Public Administration, with Gladys Ogden Dimock (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York) 531 pp. (Indonesian BrG edition 1953; Turkish edition, 1954; second edition 1958; third edition 1964; Spanish edition, 1967; fourth edition, 1969; Indian edition, 1970, 1953
Amme Idaresi, with Gladys Ogden Dimock (Ankara, Turkey), Turkish edition., 1954
Public Administration, with Gladys Ogden Dimock (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York), Turkish edition., 1954
Principles of Publich Administration (Lectures, Turkish translation, Ankara, Turkey) 149 pp., 1954
Business and Government (Henry Holt & Company, New York), third edition., 1957
A Philosophy of Administration (Harper & Brothers, New York) (Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese editions, 1967; Korean edition, 1959)., 1958
Public Administration, with Gladys Ogden Dimock and Louis W. Koenig (Rinehart & Company, Inc., New York), second edition., 1958
Administrative Vitality: The Conflict with Bureaucracy (Harper & Brothers, New York)., 1959
A Philosophy of Administration (Harper & Brothers, New York) Korean edition., 1959
Business and Government (Henry Holt & Company, New York), fourth edition., 1961
The New American Political Economy (Harper & Brothers, New York) 306 pp., 1962
Proceedings, Arden House Institute on Administrative Problems of Executives of Agencies for the Blind, Harriman, New York (Mimeograph, American Foundation for the Blind)., 1962
Administrase Negara, with Gladys Ogden Dimock (Franklin Publications, Inc., Kjakarta, Indonesia), indonesian edition., 1963
Creative Religion (Beacon rpess, Boston) 133 pp., 1963
The New American Political Economy (Arabic edition, Washington, D.C.)., 1964
Public Administration, with Gladys Ogden Dimock (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York), third edition., 1964
Monk: A Fable (Spaulding Press, Bethel Vermont)., 1965
Principios Y Normas de Administracion, Libreros Mexicanos Unidos (Mexico City, Mexico) 303 pp. (paperback)., 1965
Stages of Administrative Growth (Indian Institute of Public Administration, New India Press, New Delhi) 106 pp., 1966
A Philosophy of Administration (Harper & Brothers, New York) Portuguese, Japanese, and Spanish editions., 1967
Adminstracion Publica, with Gladys Ogden Dimock (U.S.I.S. Mexico City, Mexico) Spanish edition., 1967
The Japanese Technocracy: Management and Government in Japan (Walker/Weatherhill, Tokyo and New York) 187 pp., 1968
Casebook in Public Administration, with Gladys Ogden Dimock and R. J. Novogrod (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York) 339 pp., 1969
The Japanese Technocracy (Time-Life Books, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese translation., 1969
Public Administration, with Gladys Ogden Dimock (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, fourth edition; Washington, D. C., Arabic edition)., 1969
Animal Friends at Scrivelsby (Spaulding Press, Bethel, Vermont, December) 52 pp., with illustrations., 1970
Public Administration (Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi, calcutta, Bombay), Indian edition (third edition of the U.S. edition) 410 pp., 1970
A New Regulatory Framework: Report on Selected Independent Regulatory Agencies (The President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization, January, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.) 197 pp. (General Consultant to PACEO and Director, Regulatory Agencies Group, July 1969-January 1971

Sub-Series 2: Articles

"The Development of American Law," Pomona College Magazine, XX, No. 2, pp. 59-65., November 1931
"Do Business Men Want Good Government?" National Municipal Review, XX, No. 1, pp. 31-37., January 1931
"Les enterprises mixtes," National Municipal Review, XX, No. 11, pp. 638-641., November 1931
"Les hommes d'affaires et le gouvernement americain," Journal des Nations, No. 39 (Geneva), pp. 1-6., September 1931
L'opinion des hommes d'affaires americains sur l'action economique du gouvernement," Journal des Nations, No. 40, pp. 1-6., October 1931
"Some Aspects of American Administrative Law," Public Administration, IX, No. 4 (London), pp. 417-422., October 1931
"Special Courts for Administrative Cases," National Municipal Review, XX, No. 12, pp. 691-693., December 1931
"Survey relating to judicial administration and local government," American section, Annuaire Interparlementaire (Paris)., 1931
"American Administrative Law in 1931," American political Science Review, XXVI, No. 5, pp. 894-910., October 1932
"Droit Administratif Americain, 1931," Annuiare de l'Institut International de Droit Public (Paris), pp. 542-563., 1932
"Le Prof. Walter Wheeler Cook et le relativisme juridique," Archives de Philosophie de droit et de Sociologie juridique, Nos. 3-4, pp. 575-579., 1932
"The prospect for Regulatory Tribunals," California Law Review, XX, No. 2, pp. 162-166., January 1932
"Survey relating to public administration and judicial administration," American section, Annuaire Interparlementaire, (Paris)., 1932
"British and American Public Utilities: A Comparison," University of Chicago Law Review, I, No. 2, pp. 265-282., November 1933
"The Development of American Administrative Law," Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, XV, part 1, (London), pp. 35-46., February 1933
"Liquor Control: A Plan for Illinois," Union League Club of Chicago, pp. 11., December 1933
"The Potential Incentives of Public Employment," American Political Science Review, XXVII, No. 4, pp. 628-636., August 1933
"What is Public Administration?" Public Management, XV, No. 9, pp. 259-262., September 1933
"Administrative Law," Municipal Year Book, pp. 59-63., 1934
"The City's Part in Liquor Control," Public Management, XVI, No. 1, pp. 4-6., January 1934
"Selling Public Enterprise to the Public," National Municipal Review, XXIII, No. 12, pp. 6601-666., December 1934
"Administrative Law," Municipal Year Book, pp. 45-51., 1935
"Principles Underlying Government-Owned Corporations," Public Administration, XIII, No. 1, pp. 51-66., January 1935
"Regional Factors in National Planning and Development," (U.S. Government Printing Office) 223 pp., especially Chapter 7 and 9., December 1935
"Administrative Law," Municipal Year Book, pp. 57-61., 1936
"Can Interstate Compacts Succeed?" Public Policy Pamphlet No. 22 (University of Chicago Press), with George C. S. Benson., 1936
"Political and Administrative Aspects of Regional Planning," National Resources Committee (Washington, D.C.), pp. 1-9., June 1936
Reprinted in Planning for City, State, region and Nation, Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Planning. American Society of Planning Officials, 850 East 48th Street, Chicago. Also in American Planning and Civiv Annual, Washington, D.C. (American Planning and Civic Association)., 1936
"Public Corporations and Business Enterprise," Public Administration, XIV, No. 4 (London), pp. 417-429., October 1936
"Administrative Law," Municipal Year Book, pp. 59-64., 1937
"Scientific Method and the Future of Political Science," in Essays in Political Science, a volume honoring W. W. Willoughby (johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland), pp. 175-200., 1937
"The Study of Administration," American Political Science Review, XXXI, No. 1, pp. 28-40., February 1937
"Administration as a Science," National Municipal Review, XXVII, No. 4, pp. 265-6, 288., May 1938
"Administrative Law," Municipal Year Book, pp. 69-74., 1938
"Introduction" to John McDiarmid, Government Corporations and Federal Funds (University of Chicago Press, Chicago)., 1938
"Nouvelles formes d'enterprises des services publics," in Introduction a l'etude du droit compare, a collection of studies in honor of Edouard Lambert, pp. 394-404., 1938
"The Span of Control in the Federal Government," address delivered at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Management. Society for the Advancement of Management Journal, Vol. III, No. 1, pp. 22-28., January 1938
"Government and the Foreign Born," (U.S. Department of Labor, Washington) -, 1939
"The Inner Substance of a Progressive," Social Service Review, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, Vol. XIII, No. 4, pp. 573-578., December 1939
"Introduction" to Leslie Lipson, The American Governor (University of Chicago Press, Chicago)., 1939
"The Place of Organization in Institutional Development," in Carleton B. Joeckel, editor, Current Issues in Library Administration (University of Chicago Press, Chicago), pp. 66-89., 1939
"What Does Labor Want?" Journal of Liberal Religion, The (published by the Unitarian Minsterial Union and the Meadville Theological School), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 27-34., July 1939
"What Does Labor Want?" (U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C.), 1939
"Foreign Experience with Migration for Settlement," Social Service Review, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, Vol. XIV, No. 3, pp. 469-480, September 1940
"Growing Pains in Labor Law and Administration" in Fordham University Social Studies, Fordham University Press, 1940
"Composition and Assimilation of our Foreign Population," Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VII, No. 20, pp. 628-630, August 1941
"Government Realtions" (5 lectures). Two series of lectures on Public Relations, conducted by American Council on Public Relations, Stanford University, [date1], and University of California, Los Angeles, [date2, August 18, 1941-August 22, 1941; August 25, 1941-August 29, 1941
"Labor's Part in War and Reconstruction," The American Political Science Review, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, pp. 217-231., April, 1941
"Labor in a Democracy," The Marshall Review, 1942
"Manning the Merhcant Marine." Delivered before the American Merchant Marine Institute, New York City, September 8, 1942
"Maritime Personnell and Morale Problems During the War." National Association of Seaman's Welfare Agencies, 11th Annual Conference, Portland, Maine, June 29, 1942
"National Citizenship Education Program," A Symposium, No. II, Adult Education Bulletin, Vol. VI, No. 3, published by the Dept. of Adult Education of the National Education Association of the United States. (Publication and business office: 1201 16th Street, Washington, D.C.).
"Thoughts on Management," Executive Standard Practice. Government Service Edition, pp. 1-41 (Copyright by Harry Newton Clarke), January 1942
"WSA; Calling All Tars." War Production Board, Statistics Division, October 23, 1942
"Administrative Standards for Improving Naturalization Procedure," American Political Science Review, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, February 1943
"The Reconciliation of Group Security and Professional Freedom," The Medical Program of the War Shipping Administration (RMO) and United Seaman's Service, under the guidance of United States Public Health Service, pp. 155-163, January 28, 1943
"Bureaucracy Self-Examined," Public Administration Review, Vol. IV, No. 3, pp. 197-207, 1944
"Administrative Efficiency Within a Democratic Polity" in New Horizons in Public Administration, edited by Roscoe C. Martin (University of Alabama Press, University of Alabama), pp. 21-45, 1945
"Administrative Efficiency Within a Democratic Polity" The Organization of Congress, Symposium on Congress by Members of Congress and Others, pp. 26-38, August 1945
"Freedom and Participation," The Christian Register, Vol. 124, No. 8, pp. 305-3, August 1945
"The Pattern of Executive Leadership," Advanced Management, Vol. X, no. 4, pp. 139-146, December 1945
"The Reorganization of Congress," with George Galloway and others, Committee on Congress, American Political Science Association, February 1945
"Strengthening Congress is No. 1 Reform Task," The Chicago Sun, Sunday, August 12, 1945
"These Government Corporations," Harper's Magazine, pp. 569-576, May 1945
"The Role of Government," The School Executive, Vol. 67 (No. 5), pp. 38-40, January 1948
"Government Corporations; A Focus of Policy and Administration." American Political Science Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 5 (date1), pp. 899-921; same (continued) [date2], pp. 1145-1164, October 1949; December 1949
"Private and Governmental Relations," Southern Hospitals, Vol. XVII, No. 12, pp. 19-23, December 1949
"The Facts and Issues about the Concentration of Power: Political," Occidental College Bulletin, Proceedigs of the Sixth Congerence Institute of Economics and Finance (Los Angeles, California), pp. 14-21, October 1950
"Next 50 Years of Business-Government Impacts," North American Newspaper Alliance, January 1, 1950
"Los Objectivos del la Reorganizacion Gubernmental," in La Reorganizacion de la Rama Ejecutiva (Rio Peidras, Puerto Rico), 1951
"The Objectives of Governmental Reorganization," Public Administrative Review, Vol. XI, pp. 233-241, Autumn 1951
"Rotario y la Ciencia del Hombre," Puerto Rico Rotario, Vol. 1, pp. 3, 4, 15, 17, January-March 1952
"Political Science" in Brittanica Book of the Year, 1953
"Administrative Law and Bureaucracy," in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 292, pp. 57-64, March 1954
"The Current Administrative Challenge in Higher Education," Journal of Higher Educatin, Vol. XXV, no. 6, pp. 307-312, 340, June 1954
"New Developments in Public Administration," (in Turkish and English), Siyasal Bilgiler Fekultesi Dergisi, Vol. 9, No 1, pp. 59-84, March 1954
"Political Science" in Brittanica Book of the Year, 1954
"The University Teaching of Social Sciences: Political Science" William A. robson, editor, UNESCO and International Political Schine Association, Paris, 1945
"Political Philosophy For Our Time." brochure published by Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, pp. 1-22, November 1955
"Political Science" in Brittanica Book of the Year, 1955
"The Administrative Staff College: Executive Development in Government and Industry," in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 166-176, March 1956
"Wilson, The Domestic Reformer," in Quincy Wright (ed.), Freedom For Man: A World Safe for Mankind, Centennial of Woodrow Wilson, University of Chicago (Chicago), pp. 194-333, 1956
"Wilson, The Domestic Reformer," in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 546-565, Autumn 1956
"Ethics: Union of Ends and Means," Hospital Administration, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 15-24, Fall 1957
"Government," The American Peoples Encyclopedia, Vol. 9, 1957
"Government Ownership," The American Peoples Encyclopedia, Vol. 9, 1957
"Government Regulation of Business," The American Peoples Encyclopedia, Vol. 9, 1957
"Political Science" in Brittanica Book of the Year, 1957
"What it Means to be an Administrator," Hospital Administration, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 5-21, Winter 1957
"Woodrow Wilson as Legislative Leader," The Journal of Politics, Vol. 19, pp. 3-19
"Executive Development After Ten Years," Public Administration Review, February 1958
"Politcal Science" in Brittanica Book of the Year, 1958
"What it Means to be an Administrator," The Executive (Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University), issue, pp. 31-32, January 1958
"Wilson the Domestic Reformer," in Earl Latham (ed), The Philosophy and Policies of Woodrow Wilson, University of Chicago Press, Chapter 15, 1958
"Political Science" in Brittanica Book of the Year, 1959
"The Dimensions of the Executive Job," Public Aid in Illinois, (State of Illinois, Springfield), pp. 6-11, November 1960
"Executive Skills in Program Formulation and Decision-Making," Program Formulation and Development, Institute for Training for Public Service, Indiana University (Bloomington), 1960
"Management in the USSR: Comparisons to the United States," Public Administration Review, Vol. XX, No. 3, pp. 139-147, Summer 1960
"Political Science" in Brittanica Book of the Year, 1960
"Basic Principles and Selected Methods in Public Administration," in Training for Service in Public Assistance (Department of Health, Educaiton, and Welfare, Washington, D.C.), pp. 41-69, 1961
"Political Science" in Brittanica Book of the Year, 1961
"The Challenge of Being an Administrator," The New Outlook For the Blind, Vol. 56, No. 7, pp. 229-232, September 1962
"The Challenges of the 1960's," in Bozell & Jacobs, The Communications Challeneges in the Decade of the 1960's, New York: Bozel & Jacobs, pp. 71-81, 1962
"Dynamics of Executive Leadership," Newsletter, Girl Scouts of the USA, November 1962
"The New American Political Economy," The Executive, pp. 5-7, August 1962
"Political Science" in Brittanica Book of the Year, 1962
"A Good Religion. A Statement of Personal Faith," Unitarian-Universalist Register Leader, Vol. 145, No. 8, pp, 10-11, October 1963
"Energy for the Next Stage," Unity, pp. 88-97, September-October 1963
"No Time for Complacency," Unitarian-Universalist Register-Leader, November 1963
"Public Administration and the Aging," Proceedings of the Conference of State Executives on Aging, [date1], Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, [date2], pp. 5-1, April 9, 1962-April 12, 1962; 1963
"Policy Formation and Decision Making," 18th Management Development Program for Federal Executives, 1983-64, Graduate School, U.S. Department of Agriculture, (Washington, D.C.), p. 10, 1964
"Religion: Fact or Fiction?" Science of Mind, pp. 8=15, June 1964
"Some Dimensions of the Executive Job," 18th Management Development Program for Federal Executives, 1983-64, Graduate School, U.S. Department of Agriculture, (Washington, D.C.), 1964
"Voluntary Action in America," Avard Newsletter (New Delhi, India), Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 5-6, May-June 1964
"Building Program Support," in robert B. highsaw and Don L. Bowen (eds.), Communication in Public Administration, Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, pp. 39-48, 1965
"Vitality in Administration," Talk delivered at India International Centre, [date1], (New Delhi: Rakesh Press, [date2]), pp. 1, March 26, 1964; 1965
"The Vermont Character," News and Notes, Vermont Historical Society, Vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 51-53, March 1966
"Mobility of Employment in the Public Service," PAR 27, pp. 162-166, June 1967
"Endemic Administrative Feudality," in Netzer and eye (eds.), Education, Administration and Change, New York, Harper & Row, pp. 77-103, 1970