Rose-a-velt
Sirs:
Why do radio announcers, delegates, newspapermen and close friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the latter who should know better, mispronounce his name Rose-a-velt when it is distinctly Roosevelt?
I know you will tell me about the rule for proper names but the late great T. R. insisted on accenting the double O.
Spare the radio audience from this annoyance.
REGINALD S. ROUSSEL
Long Beach, Calif.
One of the Governor's first actions as Democratic nominee was to let it be known to all the world that, whatever Theodore Roosevelt (his fifth cousin ) may have...
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