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- James Sims worked for Grand Haven's Board of Light & Power from 1937 to 1963 and in time became the CEO of the company. He received his engineering degree from Texas A&M University and was trained in the Army Air Corps. In this interview, he talks about his love for flying along with the financing and development of the Grand Haven Municipal Air Park. He also discusses his experience with private and public owned electrical companies in Texas and Michigan, his electrical work on local area fountains, and his consultation for other communities in the development of power plants. Upon his retirement from the Board of Light & Power, the company undertook the development of a new facility, located on Harbor Island, and named it after Sims.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Darrell Tennis, labor activist and political consultant, talks about his career advocating for Michigan organized labor. Tennis reflects on working for a number of labor unions before finally opening his own consulting firm in Lansing. Tennis also talks about lobbying in the state, the influence of the United Auto Workers in the AFL-CIO, tensions between unions as state workers were organized, the administrations of Governor William Milliken and John Engler, and the creation of the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He says that he expects continued attempts to privatize public services in the state, that electing more Democrats to office does not insure a pro-labor legislature and that a fundamental problem in Michigan politics is the "gerrymandering" of voting districts. Tennis is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-12-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Lev Raphael and Loren D. Estleman talk about their views on their crime novels, the role of Michigan in their works, the problems and benefits of writing a mystery series and their reading interests. Interview conducted by Jane Arnold, humanities collection development coordinator at the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Willie recounts his youth in Mississippi, his service in the U.S. Army in Korea, and being hired at Fisher in December 1954. He describes the jobs blacks were placed on, discrimination, and being denied an apprenticeship. He comments on millwright work, family, neighborhood, and retirement.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-01-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Vernon Cook recalls working at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1944 and 1948. Cook says that much of his family worked at REO, including his future wife and that company culture dominated their lives. He describes factory working conditions, the REO Clubhouse, seeing the "Baby REO" car on display, the 1937 sit-down strike, and listening to WREO, the company radio station. He also talks at length about his job as a stock chaser in the plant and describes how trucks were built, tested and then dismantled for export. Interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-02-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Gus Caliacatsos, owner of Gus's Bar on Michigan Avenue, discusses his life and career as a Greek immigrant, his life in Greece, the Greek army, coming to America in 1962, and hiring into Fisher Body in 1963. Gus describes his first day on job, learning English, receiving a suggestion award, and union threats. He left Fisher and went to work at Harry's Bar owned by another Greek immigrant. Gus quit after 8.5 years and pursued other business interests. He returned to Lansing and opened Gus's Bar in 1982. Gus describes relations with patrons who were primarily the UAW Fisher workers from across Michigan Ave.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-02-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- U.S. President Barack Obama talks about the steps he is taking to improve competition in the cable television industry and the American economy in general. Obama says that people have not yet gotten over the "trauma" of the Great Recession even as the economy snaps back, discusses steps he has taken to prevent corporate tax inversion and monopolies and argues for helping consumers with loans and mortgages, changing the tax code to help working people and making sure that the wealthy pay their fair share. Obama is interviewed by Nicole Sinclair for Yahoo.com Finance.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-04-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The Kalamazoo Sled Company is featured in this installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar describes the history of the company and their product line, noting that the company converts to the manufacture of folding chairs and lawn furniture during the spring and summer. Dunbar interviews Virgil Miller, foreman of the company's lumber room, and Viola Lawson, a riveter during sled season and a sewer during lawn furniture season, about their roles at the company.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-12-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ken Germanson, Allied Industrial Workers international union staff member, AIW newspaper editor, and president of the Wisconsin Labor History Society (WLHS), talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. Germanson and Revitte talk about the AIW corruption scandal, why the AIW union headquarters was moved back to Milwaukee from Los Angeles, AIW leadership, AIW education efforts, comparative bargaining efforts among varied international unions and locals, and the problem in trying to hang on to contract gains as plants closed and moved. Part 7 of 7.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-03-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Donald Trump calls in to "Fox & Friends" to talk about French President Macron's visit, the Iran agreement, and to blame Senator John Tester (D-MT) for derailing his nominee to lead the Veterans Administration. Trump also talks about the 2016 election, former FBI Director James Comey, Hillary Clinton and CNN.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection