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- Description:
- Fireside Chat by President Roosevelt announcing the Armistice with Italy and the opening of the Third War Loan Drive.
- Date Issued:
- 1943-09-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In a program entitled "Your governor'" Michigan Governor G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams argues for an appropriation from the state's General Fund and a tax on corporations to fund road building and maintenance across the state. Williams laments the terrible condition of Michigan roads and says that a proposed gas tax hike would be too little too late and another terrible burden for the average consumer to bear. The governor instead proposes borrowing from the General Fund to finance the Highway Department's building fund and supplementing those dollars with a tax on corporations.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-03-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack H. Obama speaks at Penn State University about investing in innovation and clean energy technologies to create new jobs and to grow the economy. Obama praises Penn State’s emphasis on developing green buildings and talks about creating incentives to encourage innovatation.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-02-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Professor of Educational Administration Gary Sykes delivers a talk entitled, "The Future of Education: School Choice Comes to Michigan", at the MSU Main Library. Sykes talks about these three prominent social questions discussed in America: how good or bad is the American educational system?; what kind of system do we want?; and what role should government play? He compares the decentralized education system in the U.S. with other very centralized systems in other countries. Sykes says that American schools are moving away from government control towards a system of regulated privatization and he explains how schools are funded in Michigan and how that model is radically changing. Questions from the audience follows. Sykes is introduced by librarian Ruth Ann Jones. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia Series.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-12-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Energy Secretary nominee and former Texas Governor Rick Perry, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in this excerpt from his confirmation hearing. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) chairs the hearing and makes opening statements. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) introduce Perry. Following his introductory remarks, Perry answers questions about comments he made during his presidential bid about ending the EPA and denying global warming. Perry also talks about nuclear waste disposal. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) asks Perry about funding for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (F-RIB) at Michigan State University.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-01-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley asserts that Arab countries have not contributed enough money to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency which assists Palestinian refugees with education, primary health care, and refugee camp improvements. Haley's remarks are made at a U.N. Security Council Open Debate on the Middle East held at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City, New York.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Hills explains why her department delayed acting on financing home-building until that bill came out of Congress.
- Date Issued:
- 1975-06-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Notes:
- 374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm., "This is the second volume of the collected speeches ... and contains the speeches delivered ... between May, 1927-May, 1930.", and Financing American industry -- Security frauds, a national business liability -- New York, metropolis and capital market -- The common purpose of British and American finance -- The Anglo-American relationship -- Our international financial market -- Safeguarding the nation's capital -- The stock exchange and American agriculture -- The factor of credit in American business -- Financing industrial development -- Real estate and the capital market -- An indissoluble friendship -- Old and new Amsterdam -- Stock market loans --Speculation in securities -- Stabilizing American business -- New aspects of American corporate finance -- The principal causes of the stock market crisis of nineteen twenty-nine -- The evolution of stock exchanges -- Italy and America -- Some aspects of modern American finance.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- [New York? :: s.n., and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library
- Notes:
- lxxii, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. and "A selected bibliography, prepared by Rebecca B. Rankin"--P. 352-361.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- New York :: Printed by J.J. Little & Ives Co., and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library
- Notes:
- 39 p. : chart ; 26 cm.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- New York :: C.S. Nathan, and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library