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- Description:
- M. Cecil Mackey, former president of Michigan State University and current professor of economics, discusses his education, career, and tenure as MSU President. Mackey talks about his efforts to maintain the authority of the MSU Board of Trustees and planning the Breslin Center while president and his time as an economics professor since he left the presidency. Mackey also reminisces about his early career as counsel for the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Department of Transportation, as well as his early posts as President of the University of South Florida and Texas Tech. Mackey says that military conscription in both World War II and the Korean War had a definite impact on his education and discusses his opinions on the current state of higher education. Mackey is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Silkscreen poster shows a group of people on one side and soldiers on the other. Buildings and trees are in the background. Title on top and subtitle on bottom. All ink is black.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africana Posters Collection
- Description:
- Radio talk to the people explaining his message to Congress regarding extension of selective military service the Reserve and National Guard.
- Date Issued:
- 1941-07-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his State of the Union address during a fireside chat. He hopes to increase the standard of living, and warns of wartime special interest lobbyists only out for profit. The President recommends initiatives to Congress: a simplified tax law, a continuation of the law for the renegotiation of war contracts, a cost of food law, an early reenactment of the Stabilization Act of 1942, and a national service law.
- Date Issued:
- 1944-01-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Notice of Classification IV A (Man deferred by reason of age).
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation before the first lottery numbers are drawn for the military draft from the "fish bowl." Roosevelt says that those selected will join the proud history and an honorable tradition of the United States Army, which he says exists solely for the defense of our freedom. Roosevelt assert that Americans always have and always will answer the call until war is "banished from the earth." Following Roosevelt's comments, U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. draw the first two numbers and Roosevelt reads the numbers aloud.
- Date Issued:
- 1940-10-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Franklin Roosevelt's twelfth State of the Union Address, delivered over the radio. He asks congress to both amend the Selective Service Act to provide for induction of nurses into the armed forces and enact legislation to put use IV-4 men (unfit for military service) to use. Roosevelt also puts forth his economic bill of rights, which emphasizes a man's right to work.
- Date Issued:
- 1945-01-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Selective service registration radio address.
- Date Issued:
- 1940-10-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Notice of Classification IV A (Man deferred by reason of age).
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Notes:
- Two men seated at a desk and registering for the draft.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
