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- Writer Jack Driscoll reads two selections from his novel "How like an angel." He also discusses what teaching at the Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan has meant to him. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-11-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Layton Aves, a production worker and UAW organizer at REO Motor Cars/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., claims that in the 1940s only Ku Klux Klan members were allowed to join the union and work at the Lansing, MI plant. Aves says the UAW cooperated with the Klan in order to increase its strength and ability to organize workers and that union-management relations in the plant were often filled with animosity. Aves also talks about his duties at REO, where he worked from 1941 to 1975, life in the plant, his experiences with line speed-ups, piece counts, and time study, and the lives of his grandfather, father and mother, who all worked beside him the the REO factory. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-08-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama speaks at Hyde Park Academy, near his family home on the south side of Chicago, and shares stories about his family. Obama explains his proposals to help the middle class, reform education, grow the economy, and raise the minimum wage. He renews his call for Congress to vote on his various gun measures pointing to recent incidences of violence, including the murder of Hadiya Pendleton, the Chicago teenager who was killed nearby shortly after performing in President Obama's second inaugural parade. Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, introduces the President.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-02-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama tells foreign business leaders that there is no better place in the world to invest and do business than the United States during the "SelectUSA Investment Summit" held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-10-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clinton addresses the United Nations General Assembly on the occasion of signing the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-09-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Campaign speech on his last swing before the election attacking Nixons southern strategy. Recording to benefit the JFK Memorial Scholarship Fund at Old Dominion College.
- Date Issued:
- 1960-11-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ickes is introduced by the mayor of St. Louis. He cites public utilities as the source of public corruption; ties Wilkie to Samuel Insull, and Moe Annenberg; and talks about his advocacy of Consumers Power of Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1940-10-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1958-07-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Weinberger speaks on the morality of nuclear weapons at Fordham University just prior to the U.S. Catholic bishops release of their draft letters on war and peace. Originally broadcast on April 28, 1984 on WBAI-FM Pacifica Radio.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-04-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection