Reminiscences of Joseph M. Proskauer : oral history, 1961.

Biographical Note

Judge

Scope and Contents

Family background; influence of James Harvey Robinson, George Woodberry, teachers at Columbia; Columbia Law School; law practice; bench; New York State Crime Commission; Citizens Union; "Happy Warrior" speech; St. Lawrence water power; Liberty League; Charter Commission; American Jewish Committee; human rights and United Nations Conference at San Francisco; impressions of Alfred E. Smith, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Robert Moses, Stephen Wise, Louis Marshall, Chaim Weizmann, Wendell Willkie

Subjects

• Auerbach, Jerold S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Criminal justice, Administration of.
• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Hirsch, Mark D., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Judges--Interviews.
• Law--United States.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1895-1951.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Proskauer, Joseph M. (Joseph Meyer), 1877-1971.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.