Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stamped with the words "Dessimated by . . . ., a Communist-front organization." The inference is clear and the results are obvious. William Z. Foster, the Communist national chairman, has already announced that his party members will go underground rather than register in accordance with the bill, and Professor Kirtley F. Mather, chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union has stated that thousands of non-Communist liberals will be the ones to suffer...
Lashing out at the bill, introduced into Congress last week, Professor Mather's statement for the Union characterizes it as "an extraordinary departure from American law, which would endanger the liberties of loyal Americans...
...Mather also attacked the "high-handed procedure of the Committee in failing to hold public hearings on the bill in an effort to railroad it through Congress...
Strong denunciation of the new House Un-American Activities Committee "Anti-Communist" Bill came yesterday from Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union...
Despite his indefinite general attitude, Mather declared that support of Wallace did not represent "the proper appraisal of the obvious debits alongside obvious assets"; "making almost certain victory of the most Republican of Republicans" against "laying the foundations for victory four years from now." He furthermore strongly disapproves of the Wallace stand on ERP, holding that one should "work to influence the details of its potentialities for tremendous progress." But he left open the possibility that he may vote for Wallace later...