Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirtley F. Mather will speak at the opening ceremony Friday evening. Other speakers will be Harry A. Over-street, professor of Philosophy at the College of the City of New York, and author of the best selling books "Influencing Human Behavior" (1925), "About Ourselves" (1927), and "A Guide to Civilized Leisure" (1934), and Charles S. Bolster, of Cambridge, president of the new Center. While admission to this convocation is free, tickets should be secured in advance from the office in Brattle Hall...
...Chicagoan of the vintage of 1888 by birth, Professor Mather did not come to Harvard till 1924. After his graduation from Denison University (Granville, Ohio), he taught geology at Arkansas, Chicago, Queen's (Kingston, Ontario), and Denison, acquiring during this time a wife and three daughters. Since becoming professor of Geology here in 1927 he has made himself one of the most popular lecturers as well as partaken in Boston civic activities...
...Cotton Mather, great Puritan preacher and educator, hated witches and had 15 children. A Florida descendant of his, also named Cotton Mather, who hates taxes and has 15 chain stores, last week learned that taxes, unlike witches, cannot be burned at the stake...
...States, independent retailers' cries of oppression by chain-store competition have been quieted by chain-store taxes.* Particularly stiff are Florida's; only Idaho has comparably severe rates. Florida's Cotton Mather, less fanatical but no less shrewd than his ancestor, worked out a system which he thought had the tax witch lashed to the stake: he organized his 15 stores under seven loosely knit corporations, no one of which held more than three stores. Under Florida's system of graduation, paying taxes on several small chains is small potatoes to paying on one large chain...
Said Cotton Mather II, as Cotton I never would have: "I know when I'm licked...