Synonyms:
Cooke, Jay_Cooke
Meaning: United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)
Synonyms:
Cooke, Alistair_Cooke, Alfred_Alistair_Cooke
Meaning: United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
Usage examples
In England, Wheatstone and Cooke had introduced a ponderous magnetic needle telegraph.