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- Edward Rankin recalls his career as an inventory clerk, manager, and sales representative at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, between 1947 and 1973. Rankin talks about his youth and being hired at REO, and speaks nostalgically about REO social life, worker sports teams and the beautiful Olds family pipe organ featured at the REO Clubhouse. He also describes sales trips to Iraq and Lebanon on behalf of REO, the intricacies of foreign markets and general market pressures in the truck business. Interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack H. Obama announces that he has authorized the United States military to commence a limited military action, approved by the United Nations, as part of an effort to protect Libyan citizens after Moammar Gadhafi refused to declare an immediate cease-fire. The President delivers his remarks in Brasilia, Brazil at the start of a Latin American tour.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-03-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1977-06-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Carter answers questions on the coal strike, the economy, tax cuts, arms to the Arabs, federal snow storm relief, public opinion input into building nuclear plants, appointment of U.S. attorneys on a political basis, Humphrey-Hawkins bill and full employment, giving land in Maine to local Indian tribes, Adam Smith's economics.
- Date Issued:
- 1978-02-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a speech entitled, "Progressive covenant with the people", as he accepts the Progressive Progressive Party's nomination for president.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama lays out his vision for a comprehensive plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare the U.S. for the impacts of climate change, and lead global efforts to fight it. Obama announces he has directed the Environmental Protection Agency to begin federal regulations on carbon pollution by new and existing power plants. He also states that approval of the Keystone Pipeline project needs to be in the "nation's interest" and not exacerbate the effects of carbon pollution. Held at Georgetown University.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- University of Findlay art historian Marie Louden-Hanes delivers a talk entitled, "Beyond the Morning Bell: Women and Work in the Art of Winslow Homer." Speaking from a slideshow presentation of Homer's art, Louden-Hanes analyzes the figures and portrayal by Homer of the work lives of women and girls, their occupations in both rural and urban settings, and a range of levels of respectability. Louden-Hanes 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, the MSU Museum, and co-sponsored by the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context and the MSU Women's Resource Center. Held at the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clinton delivers his health care reform message to a joint session of Congress.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-09-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clinton delivers the State of the Union address. Stresses plans to deal with crime, education, health, welfare, natural disasters, and the economy.
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In his monthly radio program Memories of the Past, Doug Tjapkes interviews Grand Haven resident John VanSchelven about his early memories of the area. During this program, John recalls his early years growing up in Grand Haven where he was born in 1899. He reminisces about the many jobs he held during his life, including delivering newspapers and working in a bakery. He talks about his father and the family home at 222 Fulton Street in Grand Haven.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection