Word: mather
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Last week the following were news: William G. Mather, Cleveland tycoon, president of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. (miner of iron ore in Minnesota and Michigan, operator of a fleet of 20 Great Lakes freighters, manufacturer of charcoal and wood chemicals), last week retired from active management of the company which was given him in 1891 by his father, the founder. Elected to the newly created post of chairman, he was succeeded as president by Edward B. Greene, chair-man of the executive committee of Cleveland Trust...
Last Saturday, F. H. Crawford, professor of Physics, talked on a century of Progress in Physic over WBZ. Next Saturday evening, August 12, Harlow Shapley will give a condensed version of the talk which he will deliver at the Observatory Thursday evening. Professor Kirtley Mather will give the Geology lecture on August 19, H. E. Bent will discuss Chemistry during the last century on August 19, H. E. Bent will discuss Chemistry during the last century on August 26, and Professor MacDonald will speak on Biology on September...
...late great Stephen Tyng Mather was taken from his Chicago borax business by Secretary of the Interior Lane, who two years later made him first head of the National Park System. Director...
...Mather appointed Mr. Cammerer assistant director of the service in 1919. When Mr. Mather's ill health retired him in 1929, Associate Director Horace M. Albright, a Republican, succeeded him. Mr. Cammerer, a potent Democrat in Virginia, where he lives with his wife at Lyonhurst, succeeds Mr. Albright. The Mather tradition goes on. Director Cammerer, tall, browned, 49 and a good mixer, has not seen his new domain in years. While supervising east ern parks, he has puttered expertly in his two-acre Lyonhurst garden, chewing an unlit cigar. In the Eastern service he has already erected a monument...
...Mather is a Chicago man by birth, and received his college B.S. at Denison University in 1909. He came to Harvard first in 1924, was made professor of geology in 1927, and has served as the head of the Department of Geology and Geography...