Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having been an interested reader of TIME for several years I feel sure that you will be glad to correct an erroneous statement made on p. 30 your issue for Feb. 13, 1928, wherein you state under caption "Bank Robbers," that two innocent Mexicans were shot in front of a Bank at Midland for the sake of the rewards offered...
These Mexicans were shot in Stanton, Texas, 20 miles east of Midland and their assailants are now under indictment for murder. This press statement has given our town some rather unwelcome publicity, your part of which I am sure you will be glad to rectify...
...trust you will print this letter or in some other way correct your original but erroneous statement, thus placing the credit where...
...trite to say that the world is so small that one can scarcely move in it without stepping on some one's toes; bat the statement becomes increasingly true in these days, and, after all, the truth is never trite. It appears that even so innocuous a phrase as "American legation" jars on the ears of much of the Western Hemisphere, and that the diplomats at Washington, anxious not to displease, have in recent time substituted for it such an expression as "the United States legation...
...sound basis for discussion. The widely varying nature of entrance requirements in different colleges make it impossible for them to take a fixed position at present. Such delineation of public secondary school attitude should be not merely definitive, but suggestive in form. Foremost within it should be a statement of what further advance in specific fields of study the secondary school would be prepared to exchange for a cut in the over-wide requirements of college entrance under the credit system. In such a document education in general, as well as college committees on admission, would possess a thumb-rule...