Word: sure
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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...
...Penn hotel in Pittsburgh. Presidents J. D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Horace W. Baker of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. called, to request that the Senators would make their tour without any escort from the United Mine Workers whose officials, insisted the operators, would be sure to distort conditions. Philip Murray, the Mine Workers' vice president, was more persuasive, however, and a union delegation accompanied the tourists, on the understanding that Mr. Murray was to be kept away from the operators' superintendents at the mines...
...Harvard tennis team and M. T. Hill '30 today reached the double semi-finals of the second annual Intercollegiate Indoor Tennis Tournament. Their advancement places Harvard in a close race for second honors in the tourney. Princeton with continued singles victories has amassed enough points to make it sure of the team trophy...
...dude ranches or vaudeville. What does Mr. Average Citizen do to relieve his tension? He goes exploring in his automobile, knowing perfectly well that he will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy" Perhaps he stalks into a drugstore bar on the way home, puts his foot on the rail, demands a double-chocolate-marshmallow-pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich. Before supper he reads the fortnightly crime ofthe "crime of the century" in his favorite newspaper.* That the night...