Word: proskauer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...became known as the man who called Al Smith the Happy Warrior. But Roosevelt deserved little credit. The Wordsworth couplet (from the poem that was read at Grover Cleveland's funeral in 1908) was written into the nominating speech by its principal ghostwriter, New York Judge Joseph M. Proskauer. Roosevelt accepted the idea reluctantly, argued that the flourish was too literary for hardheaded convention delegates...