Michigan State University Libraries
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- President Obama signs a Presidential Memorandum on modernizing the overtime system by directing the Labor Department to recommend rules governing overtime pay to ensure that workers are paid fairly for a hard day's work.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-03-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Obama delivers remarks explaining the critical importance of raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10. Obama recognizes members of the Big Ten Champion basketball team who are in attendance and praises Jordon Morgan's academic accomplishments. He praises the business practices of Zingerman's Delicatessen, recounts the improving economic conditions of the U.S. economy, and describes the successful enrollment numbers for the Affordable Care Act. Held in the Intramural Sports Building at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Reagan in a press conference.
- Date Issued:
- 1981-03-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Reagan announces forthcoming meeting with Soviet ambassador Andrei Gromyko. He answers questions about the meeting, breaches in arms control by the Soviets, Reagan's priorities, and a specific deficit-reduction plan.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-09-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Senator Joseph Lieberman sees the testimony of the Buddhist nuns as insufficiently crucial to warrant immunizing them.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-07-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Recording begins with news coverage of Jack Dempsey beating Jess Willard in a boxing match on July 4, 1919.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- William Penn, essayist, fiction writer, and professor of English at Michigan State University, talks about his novel "The Absence of Angels," settings and plots in his works, inspiration from his family, his in-progress works, Native American dramas, and his reading habits. Penn is interviewed by MSULibrarian Jane Arnold for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-11-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Gerald Ford discusses a tax cut bill which was larger than he wanted, saying that Congress must now yield on federal spending.
- Date Issued:
- 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- In this installment of "Know your city" Dr. Willis Dunbar walks the listener through a typical morning in downtown Kalamazoo. Dunbar gives a tour of the stores downtown, describing their window ornaments and the wares inside. He then passes the show over to Newton Lincoln, manager of Kalamazoo's Social Security Office, and Mervyn Black, Lincoln's assistant, to discuss the operations of the Social Security Office.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Donald Trump reacts to the news of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue during Shabbat morning services earlier in the day. He praises the law enforcement response, advocates for the death penalty, and bemoans the state of the world, saying he will make a detailed statement after arriving at the Young Farmers conference in Indiana. He asserts that the shooting would not have happened if the synagogue had armed guards.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-10-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Poet Diane Seuss talks about landscape in her poems, her book "It blows you hollow," themes in her poetry, and her life as both a poet and a college teacher. Suess is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-09-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet Mark Yakich, professor of English at Central Michigan University, talks about his education, developing an interest in poetry while working in Brussels, Belgium, his writing style, the cover of his book "The making of collateral beauty", and the relationship between teaching and writing. Yakich is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-03-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Omar Bradley states that the U.S. does not want war and he discusses the United States' problems and responsibilities pertaining to this policy.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama speaks on the many troubles facing the American middle class. He announces the creation of the White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families, headed by Vice President Joe Biden. The task force is charged with creating new jobs and monitoring the problems that middle-income working families face, with the ultimate goal being to raise the living standards of those already in the middle class, as well as those aspiring to it. The President also announces plans to sign three executive orders intended to make unionization easier for those employed by companies with federal contracts.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-01-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. John Waller, Associate Professor of the History of Medicine in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of History at Michigan State University, describes his research on medieval medicine and disease and his efforts to write in a manner that will make his books accessible. Waller calls the culture of science one of competition and disagreement based upon constructive criticism and describes his attempts to illuminate how science operates to reach truth. He reads passages from his books and talks extensively about his history of workhouse boy turned mill worker, Robert Blincoe. A question and answer concludes the session. Waller is introduced by MSU Librarian Agnes Haigh Widder. Part of the MSU Libraries Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-11-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama speaks at the Human Rights Campaign's 15th Annual National Dinner held at the Washington Convention Center. Obama declares that, "every single American...deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society." He lists the accomplishments of his administration in the area of human rights and gay rights, including the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell." Obama also advocates for his American Jobs Act which is pending in congress and says the country is having a fundamental debate national identity.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Matthew Wojciechowski, a student at Michigan State University, discusses growing up in Dearborn Heights, MI, the community's middle class lifestyle, adjusting to the diversity at MSU, first selecting Engineering as his major to please and impress his father, and later switching to Graphic Design. He also talks about foreign students in his classes, the competitiveness he says that they bring, and how other students resent them, career possibilities in his major, conflicts with professors, managing college life, the dorm, and blowing off steam. He says that he aspires to be married with kids and living in a rural area while pursuing his profession.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-05-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection