Search Constraints
« Previous |
9,791 - 9,800 of 11,326
|
Next »
Search Results
- Description:
- In this installment of "The lawmakers" Dr. Willis Dunbar interviews Congressmen Gerald Ford and Fred L. Crawford. Crawford provides a detailed history of labor legislation beginning in the 1890's with the Sherman Anti-trust Act and discusses how past law making has shaped current events. Following Crawford, Ford explains efforts to repeal or amend the Taft-Hartley Act and the failure of the Wood Bill in the House of Representatives.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-05-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Helen Piwkowski and Jeannette Oksa talk about their lives, families, and their work in a cigar factory in Detroit, Michigan. They also discuss being born in Poland and emigrating to the U.S., their education, their union activity, race relations in Detroit neighborhoods and in the workplace, and the Polish community in Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1981-02-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Acclaimed American editor and short story writer Kelly Link talks about her participation in the thirty-eighth Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop at Michigan State University. Link discusses her involvement with Clarion first as a student and now as an instructor, her writing style, her chosen genre, her writing process, and her current projects. Link is interviewed by Capital Area District Library Librarian Jessica Trotter.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-07-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Science fiction writer David Harlan Wilson reads from his work and answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Michigan State University Librarian by Leslie Behm. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-01-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Author Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-09-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Writer and Michigan State University Professor Marcia Aldrich and her friends Leonora Smith and Lynn Fendler read Aldrich's selected works and answer questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the MSU Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-02-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Randy talks about being hired at AC Spark Plug Flint (which became Delphi) in May 1994 and coming to the Fisher Body Paint Shop in January 2000 as a Delphi "flow back." He discusses commuting, his apprenticeship at AC Spark Plug, millwright work, and compares Fisher to AC Spark Plug. Randy comments on the Paint Shop, critters in the plant, relations with supervisors, and the strikes in 1995 and 1998.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Comedian Frank Kennedy performs ethnic humor in this routine entitled, Schultz's Wedding Trip..
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Doris Faustman talks about her three periods of employment at the REO Motor Car Company in Lansing, MI. She says that she first worked as a clerk from 1945 to 1947, left to raise children, came back from 1949 to 1951 and returned to REO again in 1967 when her kids were older. She describes her work in the parts department, her coworkers, bosses, and being a grateful member of the union. Faustman talks about the first attempts to computerize REO administrative offices and how foreign and strange all of the equipment seemed to staff. She also sadly recalls being laid off in 1975 when REO closed in bankruptcy. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-06-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Excerpt from a memorial service held on the former site of the World Trade Center in New York City. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses the crowd and calls for the first moment of silence. President Barack Obama reads from Psalm 46 and Bloomberg, quoting Shakespeare, introduces the reading of the victim's names. Following a second moment of silence, former President George W. Bush reads from Abraham Lincoln's November 1864 letter to Lydia Bixby, a grieving mother.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-09-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection