Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Manhattan newspapers reported such a marriage. The bride was Anne Mather, an heiress to a Cleveland iron-ore fortune and a descendant of New England's old Puritan Cotton Mather. The groom was Frank Curie Montero, a director of the Urban League Fund, whom she had met in social-welfare work...
...Devil's Children. The colonists had plenty else to concern them besides the Indians. In New England, especially, the Devil made trouble. "Exhibiting himself ordinarily as a small black man," says that great theological gossip, Cotton Mather, the fiend "decoyed a fearful knot of proud, froward, ignorant, envious, and malicious creatures to lift themselves in his horrid service...
...most militant crusader against the Teacher's Oath in the state was Kirtley Mather. Not until December 12, 1935, several months after the Teacher's Oath Bill had passed did he sign a pledge and then he did so only at the request of President Conant. Had Mather not signed and still remained on the Harvard faculty, the University would have been involved in considerable litigation with the state. Paul A. Dever, who was then attorney-general, had ruled that any educational institution which didn't comply 100 percent with the oath law would have its charter revoked. (Several...
...Mather credited these weaknesses to "so-called Christians." Christian principles, he maintained, offer a man a spiritual guide which science and art do not provide...
Kluckhohn is a professor of Anthropology, and Mather is a professor of Geology...