Word: mather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack has massed against the fortifications. As the bombing squadron comes in through the Golden Gate the attack planes rapidly circle the presidio in a protective maneuver. The main bombardment group bombs the presidio, turns below us toward Mather Field as the pursuit planes follow. . . . Goodbye...
Zechariah Chafee, professor in the Harvard Law School, will preside at the dinner, which is scheduled for 6.30 o'clock. Following the dinner K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, will speak on the subject, "Does Evolution Justify Capital Punishment," and Father Spence Burton, former chaplain at San Quentin Prison, will discuss the experiences of "A Prison Chaplain in the Death House...
...scene of the voting had changed to the fine, big Stambaugh auditorium. But the scene of the real battle had moved, far from the tired, bitter stockholders, into the comparative quiet of the courts. Neither Cyrus Eaton nor Jim Campbell, nor Grace and Schwab of Bethlehem, nor the Mather brothers of Cleveland, held the key to Youngstown's riddle. For four days, this object was in the hands of a hitherto obscure but extremely genial jurist by the name of C. S. Turnbaugh...
Reconnaissance began at once. Small groups took the air to learn the countryside, to spot enemy encampments. Next day larger squadrons rose out of Mather Field to smash Southern Pacific R. R. yards, to destroy bridges and warehouses and ammunition dumps, to hop over fields and fences, highways and houses, to harass the invaders with bomb and bullet...
...Pacific Coast. The problem: expulsion of an enemy entirely by aircraft. For three weeks the first provisional wing of the Army Air Corps-the same squadrons and men that would be immediately concentrated in event of real war-would fight its invisible foe by day, would transform Mather Field into a gigantic metal rookery at sundown...