Word: mather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replying to charges in the local press that universities were "hotbeds of Communism" and that by implication, through his support of Loyalist Spain, he himself was a Communist, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night branded these statements as "the universal trick of all people trying to sway public opinion...
...occasion for Mather's statement was the charge by Walter S. Reynolds, Michigan Legionnaire, before the Dies committee that Professor Albert Einstein was "an active supporter of the Communist party" because he supported the Spanish Loyalists. Reynolds lumped Einstein with John L. Lewis, Harry Bridges and David Dubinsky...
Ever since the bill was enacted under the Curley regime four years ago, Mather has fought openly against the legislation which requires all teachers and instructors to take an oath supporting in the constitutions of both nation and state...
With the announcement by a small but politically active group of the Faculty, led by Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, that they would work to send candidate James M. Curley back into oblivion, prospects for a lively campaign were definitely enhanced...
...issue is quite clear", said Mather. "Saltonstall has pledged himself to work for its repeal, while Curley, of course is thoroughly in favor of the measure". Committing himself to personal support of the Republican candidate, the Geology I lecturer admitted that only lack of time had prevented that only lack of time had prevented organization of a Faculty committee to oppose the former Governor...