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- A number of people speak about the Ingersoll Division of the Borg-Warner Corporation ahead of its display exhibition at the Great Kalamazoo Exposition, a fundraiser to support children with cerebral palsy. Frank Nugent, Ingersoll's sales manage, speaks about what will be on display at the exhibit while Henry Price, president of Ingersoll's chapter of the CIO, speaks of the pride the factory workers feel towards the products they make and asks people to come see them at the display. Dr. Willis Dunbar gives a history of the Ingersoll Corporation, discussing how it came to Kalamazoo and how it became a division of the Borg-Warner Corporation.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-05-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Science fiction writer and Detroiter Kathe Koja talks about why she would like to be a cat, the sources of her inspiration, research for her books, her family, and her soon to be published works. Koja is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Leslie Behm for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-04-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Lee talks about standing in a line that ran four blocks to the elementary school to apply and being hired in September 1977. He describes his impression of the size of the plant, his first jobs and discovering they were not as easy as they looked. Lee tells about finishing college, being a per diem supervisor, and watching Sexton High School football games from the factory roof.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-10-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Vice President Joseph Biden praises the efforts of President Barack Obama to pass health care reform and introduces the President. President Obama talks about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, before signing the bill into law. He also talks about the features of the act, how citizens will benefit and how insurance company practices that will be controlled. He also thanks those that have pushed for health care reform for decades.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama talks about the heath care needs of injured veterans and their families that will be addressed by the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act and then signs the bill. Obama says that the bill improves health care services for veterans and provides assistance and training to those who provide care to wounded veterans.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-05-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Vess L. Ossman performs the John Philip Sousa march "Stars and stripes forever" on banjo with piano and fife accompaniment.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Librarian Susan Kendall convenes a panel discussion entitled, "Publishing, Authoring, and Teaching in the Evolving Open Access Environment." Farha Abbasi, Professor Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry talks about her experiences as managing editor of the open access "Journal of Muslim Mental Health." Ian M. Dworkin, Professor MSU Department of Zoology and an editor at the open access journal "PLoS One", discusses the benefits and complications of publishing scholarly work in open access journals and on pre-print servers. Steven Weiland, Professor MSU Department of Educational Administration, presents his approaches to teaching graduate students about old and new models of publishing. Question and answer session concludes the program. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia series held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clinton's "Whitewater press conference." Reporters Jim Wooten in Little Rock and Cokie Roberts in Washington analyze the speech. Peter Jennings anchors.
- Date Issued:
- 1994-03-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton eulogizes Secretary of Commerce, Ron Brown from Browns funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-04-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- William Riddell, a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Toronto, presents, "A leak in the ship of State : the Sailors' Union of the Pacific and the imperial labor politics of Pacific annexation, 1897-1900," a look into the development and organization of the Sailors' Union. Riddell examines the relationship between American expansion in the Pacific and the battle of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific to prevent the spread of "unfree labor" in the new territories and answers questions after his talk. He 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. Held at the MSU Museum Auditorium.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-10-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection