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 3: Speech and Article File

Text and notes of speeches and articles by Dimock, transcripts of radio programs filed alphabetically by title or general subject. Correspondence will be found in the files “Bureaucracy and Trusteeship in Large Corporations,” Government Text – Harry Newton Clarke, and Morton D. Hull – Biography. (NOTE: A list “Publications of Marshall E. Dimock – 1929-1971” is included as an appendix. Several of the publications are not included in the papers.)

Box 52

Administration - General (1 of 2)
Administration - General (2 of 2)
"Philosophy of Administration"
Administrative Law
"Alien Registration and Investigations"
"The Alien, the Government and the Social Worker"
"The Alien and National Defense"
"The Alien and the War"
"The Wartime Treatment of Aliens"
Americanism
"I Am an American" - Broadcasts
"Revival in Britain"
Bureaucracy - General
"Bureaucracy and Trusteeship in Large Corporations" - TNEC (Corres. re.) (1 of 2)

Box 53

"Bureaucracy and Trusteeship in Large Corporations" - TNEC (Corres. re.) (2 of 2)
Business and Government
California's Social Problems
Children's Stories
"What it Means to be a Citizen"
Citizenship - General
Civil Liberties
Congress
Cooperative Movement
"A Vermont Farmer Looks at the Economy"
"New American Political Economy" (Corres. re.)
Education - General
"Education for Executive Leadership"

Box 54

"The Spirit of Enterprise"
"Executive Responsibilities"
"The Foreign Born in Time of Crisis"
"Composition and Assimilation of Our Foreign Born"
"Government and the Foreign Born"
"Life Factors of Free Enterprise"
Government - General
Government Corporations
"The Objectives of Governmental Reorganization"
Government Text - Harry Newton Clarke (1 of 2)
Government Text - Harry Newton Clarke (2 of 2)

Box 55

"Voluntary Enterprise and Government"
Morton D. Hull - Biography
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (Dept. of Labor)
"Immigration and Naturalization Service - Jurisdiction of Special Inspectors"
"Inheritors of the Earth"
"Labor in a Democracy"
"Organized Labor in a Democracy"
"Liberal Religion and Labor" - Homer Jack
"Labor and the Present Crisis"
"Labor's Part in War and Reconstruction"
"Labor as a Factor in International Reconstruction"
"What Does Labor Want?"
"The Accomplishments and Future of the United States Department of Labor"

Box 56

"Growing Pains in Labor Law and Administration"
"Protective labor Legislation - Boon or Bane in a Defense Economy?"
Liquor Control
Management - General
"The Principles of Management"
"Maritime Personnel and Morale Problems During the War"
"Marks and Spencer"
Merchant Marine
"Manning the Merchant Marine"
"Experience of the Merchant Marine with Manpower"
"Manpower Requirements of the American Merchant Marine"
"Foreign Experience with Migration for Settlement"
Monopoly - General
"Administrative Standards for Improving Naturalization Procedure"
"The Services of Northwestern University to Evanston"
"Land of Opportunity"
Pacific Palisades - Dedication
"Uses of Past"
Peace

Box 57

Planning - General
"Political Philosophy of Our Time"
Political Science
"The Teaching of Political Science in the U.S."
"Post-War Social Trends"
"Power Politics"
"The Inner Substance of a Progressive"
Public Administration
Public Relations
Public Utilities
Religion
"The Reviewing Stand"
Seaman Welfare
Security

Box 58

"Security Within"
"The Evolution of a Seminar"
Sermons - Miscellaneous
"The State and the Individual"
Turkey
"Our Unity is Real"
vermont Forums
"Reconciliationof Group Security and Professional Freedom" (Conference on War Neuroses)
Washington, D.C.
"Wilson - The Domestic Reformer"
Book Reviews - Miscellaneous
Lectures - American Council on Public Relations
Lecture and Speech Notes - Miscellaneous