Reminiscences of Norman Atwater Cocke and Grady Rankin : oral history, 1964.

Biographical Note

Lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Educational backgound; founding of Duke Power Co., 1912; anti-trust case, American Tobacco Co., 1911-1912; impressions of James B. Duke as a businessman; planning the Duke Endowment; building and operating Duke University; trustee of the Duke Endowment, 1924; President, Duke Power Co., 1953; description of the Duke home in Charlottesville.

Subjects

• Cocke, Norman A. (Norman Atwater), 1884-1974.
• Duke, James B., 1857-1925.
• Duke Endowment.
• Duke Power Company.
• Duke University.
• Endowments.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Rankin, Grady.
• Rankin, Grady.
• Rounds, Frank W., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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