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- President Barack H. Obama delivers a speech on his deficit and debt reduction plan. The plan comes after weeks of partisan wrangling over the 2011 and 2012 federal budget, taxes and discretionary spending. Obama explains the values and moral imperatives reflected in his plan, explains how the national debt rose to its present level and proposes a combination of targeted taxes and specific spending cuts. Delivered at George Washington University, Washington D.C.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-04-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Multi-media ethnographer Candacy Taylor delivers a talk entitled, "Beauty Shop Culture and the Labor of Hairdressing." Taylor describes hair salons functioning as communities where people gather to discuss everything from intimate family sagas to the stock market. Using audio clips of several hairdressers she interviewed, Taylor explains her project, how she gained entry to the private environment of the salons, and how the work of styling is done. She suggests the ritual of going to the salon is as important as going to church. She answers questions from the audience. Taylor 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 Libraries' Colloquia Series, the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context, and the MSU Women's Resource Center. Held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-11-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Michigan State University Professor Anna Pegler-Gordon delivers a talk entitled, "Shanghaied in Hoboken: Asian Sailors as Workers and Immigrants." Pegler-Gordon describes how Asian seamen were incorporated into maritime work and how they suffered low pay, harsh conditions, virtual slavery, and harsh regulation under the federal Exclusion Act to prevent them from leaving their ships while in U.S. ports. She describes American fears of illegal immigration by Asian sailors jumping ship or by stowaways posing as sailors. Pegler-Gordon explains the role of U.S. immigration officials in interpreting and enforcing the Exclusion Act, the racist nature of enforcement, and the slow improvement of conditions. She answers questions from the audience. Pegler-Gordon is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series co-sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, the MSU Asian Studies Center, and the Asian Pacific American Studies program. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-02-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Dr. Salah Hassan, associate professor of English at Michigan State University, delivers introductory remarks at the Muslim Journeys Book Club event which features a discussion of Anthony Shadid's book, "House of stone : a memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East." Dr. Hassan discusses the literature and geography of Shadid's story and gives insights into the history of the region. MSU Librarian Deborah Margolis introduces Dr. Hassan and welcomes the audience.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-01-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- George Bush addresses the National Baptist Convention in New Orleans, on the needs of the black community and the scourge of drugs.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-09-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Kennedy announces the release of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers by the Soviets and the release of the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel by the United States.
- Date Issued:
- 1963-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In an oral history interview, Selma Hollander talks with retired Michigan State University faculty Dixie Platt about their fifty-year friendship. Platt reminisces about coming to Hollander's home and tip toeing through an art project that Hollander had laid out on her living room floor. Platt also talks about living next door to the Hollanders in the Marilyn Apartments as a new faculty member and being introduced to other MSU faculty and administrators by the Hollanders when she came to visit. Hollander talks about pursuing her bachelor's and masters' degrees at MSU, exhibiting her art at various venues including, the Wharton Center, teaching classes, aging, fashion and travel. She also talks about her husband Stanley's blindness and how, with her help, he was able to continue teaching and traveling and her recent one-hundredth birthday party. The third of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-MI) asks Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) about how much will be cut from farm supporters in the new budget-cutting programs.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-02-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Warren Harding calls for a return to "normalcy" in a campaign speech.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection