Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Mather, president of the University of Massachusetts LL.D...
Both Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology emeritus, denied the charges upon their release...
Shapley at that time accused the report as just a way to get headlines. "Beyond the same tedious material that McCarthy floundered with, there is nothing new here," he said. Mather brushed off the charges against him emphatically. "It is untrue, of course," he said. "The group of men on the list are a curious mixture of people. Some are out and out Communists and some are patriotic Americans...
...reviewing the organizations which he has sponsored, Mather said that they have done nothing more subversive than criticize the McCarran...
...list will do a great deal of harm, Mather claimed, because it will discourage men from worthwhile causes out of fear of being blacklisted themselves...