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- Description:
- Brooke lost his bid for a third term as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts to Paul Tsongas.
- Date Issued:
- 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Harry Truman delivers a radio address to the American people on the Potsdam conference, his observations of the devastation in Europe, and dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
- Date Issued:
- 1945-08-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The Sherwood family came to Grand Haven in 1904, and together with the Jacobson and Johnson families, became leading entrepreneurs of the area. In this interview, Marion and his daughter Lynne discuss the businesses that were developed by the Sherwood, Jacobson and Johnson families. These included the Grand Haven Brass Foundry, Grand Haven Stamped Products, and Michigan Plastic Products, Inc. The families later collaborated to form the JSJ Corporation in 1970. Marion was its first director and served as the company's first president until 1977. He also served as trustee for the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation. Also in this interview, Marion gives a history of the Grand Haven State Bank.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Patricia Heyden, author of "Behind the badge : the history of the Lansing Police Department," gives a lengthy overview of the Lansing Police from the city's first charter in 1859 up to the present. Heyden is interviewed by Ron Onufer, an employee of the City of Lansing.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Robert F. Banks, associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources, and professor emeritus of the James Madison College at Michigan State University, talks about coming to MSU in 1967 with a joint appointment to both James Madison College and the School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR). Banks also talks about the founding of SLIR as a school, push-back by the MSU College of Business which felt SLIR duplicated their degree offerings, courses he taught, the administration of SLIR, and personality conflicts between SLIR faculty and the MSU administration. Banks is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. Fourth of seven interviews.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-03-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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. They discuss pending labor conferences at which they they hope to present, the founding of WLHS, AIW members and leaders they know and the varied attitudes among workers about unions. They also talk about the division among labor activists and anti-war activists in the late 1960s and early 70s and how that played to management's advantage, early socialists and how some of them were racist while others were pro-civil rights and other possible topics they might discuss in the future, including health and safety, collective bargaining, pensions and plant closings.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-04-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Olive Hatton Harbeck was born in Long Island, NY and came with her family to Grand Haven around 1910. Her father, William Hatton, was president of the Eagle Ottawa Leather Company. After the death of Olive's mother, Elizabeth, William underwrote the cost of converting the former Loutit residence to the Elizabeth Hatton Memorial Hospital. Along with her sister Kathleen, Olive attended Akeley Institute, a prestigious finishing school for girls in Grand Haven. She gives a detailed history of the school and its curriculum. She also talks at length about the FBI's investigation of alleged communists among prominent citizens of Grand Haven during the Cold War.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In this installment of "Western Michigan at work," Dr. Willis Dunbar profiles the A.M. Todd Company. Dunbar describes the history of the Todd Company from its start in Albert M. Todd's backyard in St. Joseph County, Michigan to its current operations in Kalamazoo where it employs 150 people to produce peppermint oils used by the makers of chewing gum and dental products. Dunbar discusses the shift of the peppermint industry from New York to Michigan and Indiana and a Todd engineer talks about the company's procedures for ensuring uniformity and quality across its products.
- Date Issued:
- 1946-10-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection