Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's most distinguished scientists turned their attention from the laboratory this month to the problem of international peace with regard to Europe. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, excoriated "the travesty and hypocrisy" of U.S. policy in Greece, and Kirtley F, Mather, professor of Geology, termed Europe's economic fate inextricably bound up with American welfare...
After two months on the continent attending scientific conclaves and promoting an Emergency World People's Conference to meet in New York City this November, Mather told the press that "this nation must have European markets to escape a depression...
Here in Boston Mather warned that in two or three years this country will sink into economic collapse unless European depression is avoided. As temporary chairman of the World People's Congress which gathers in New York City on November 29 he will probably introduce this issue with emphasis on Soviet-American relations...
...Mather reluctantly admitted he thought that Russia had impeded the recovery of Europe by refusing to cooperate with the western powers in the reconstruction of Germany. But he called it the United States' world obligation to maintain amicable relations...
...press conference at the Boston City Club's at noon today, Professor Mather will furnish more details on his one-man mission...