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- Michigan State University College of Music Professor Maria Cristina Fava delivers a talk entitled, "Drawing a Finer Point on 1930's Era Success: 'Pins and Needles' and the ILDWU's Lesson for the Theater Guild". Fava explains the relationship of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Theatrer Guild in the production of the Off-Broadway show "Pins and Needles". Fava describes how the production evolved from a variety show with a cast of unionized garment workers in their off time to the cast giving up their jobs to become full time actors with the success of the show. She provides reviews by theater critics and describes how the cast navigated the politics of the day. A question and answer session follows. Fava is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Birch Bayh says that federal support for New York City is unpopular, but that a worthy national leader would not follow public opinion and take the easy way out.
- Date Issued:
- 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Transcript of interview of Frances Huckins. In this transcript, she describes her early life, but most of the transcript is about her life during WWI in New York at Camp Mills as a hostess. She details her daily life at the camp. Of particular interest are her recollections of her experience with the 1918 flu epidemic and watching the men practice bayonet drills. She also details her travels around the world, including her six month job as a hostess at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii after World War I. After Hawaii, Mrs. Huckins returned to the U.S. and was hired at a tuberculosis hospital in Oteen, North Carolina. The interview concludes with her explaining her affiliation with the Women Overseas Service League.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Date Issued:
- 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- John Tower says New Yorkers continue to live high off the hog and do not deserve to be bailed out by Congress. Broadcast on CBS-TV October 22, 1975.
- Date Issued:
- 1975-10-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama delivers the 2012 commencement address at Barnard College in New York City. Obama praises the college and highlights a number of notable alumna. He tells the graduates, "Don’t just get involved..., fight for a seat at the head of the table." He tells the graduates to patiently and persistently pursue their goals, describes women's rights as human rights, and remembers the women who influenced his life.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-05-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In an episode of "This is Kalamazoo," Mayor Paul Todd discusses topics covered in the annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Todd speaks in detail about housing projects in New York City and the relationship between "slums" and problem areas for police, land use in the Netherlands, a scientific presentation concerning the future of atomic bombs, civilian defense, and the future of the Soviet Union.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-07-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Donald Trump comments on the news of an F.B.I. raid at the office of Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen. Trump asserts that Cohen is a good man and the raid is a part of the ongoing "witch-hunt" against him. Trump claims that he has given over a million pages worth of documents to the special council and the F.B.I.'s continued investigation of him is a disgrace and an attack on the country as a whole. Trump's comments are made prior to a meeting with senior military leadership.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-04-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection