| Title: |
Reminiscences of Joseph M. Proskauer
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A104
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
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.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 141 leaves
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Written permission required from executor until 9/91. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1961 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Proskauer, Joseph M., 1877-1971
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1877
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| Speaker occupation: |
Judge
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| Age at speaking: |
84
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| Document date: |
1961
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| Interviewer: |
Auerbach, Jerold S.; Hirsch, Mark D.
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| Organizations discussed: |
Democratic Party, US
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| Locations discussed: |
New York; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Criminal justice, Administration of; Democratic Party, US; Judges; Law--United States; New York; North America; Oral history; United States; United States--Politics and government--1933-1945
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
New York (NY)--Politics and government--1895-1951; Proskauer, Joseph M., 1877-1971
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0016877-12320
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