Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pepper laid before me for further extension of the leave of Brigadier General Butler from his duties in the Marine Corps in order that he might continue to serve as head of the Police Department of the City of Philadelphia, I have come to the conclusion that the request ought not to be granted...
...course, I have every wish to help you and to grant any request Senator Pepper might make, and I have every sympathy with your wish to take all reasonable precautions to secure the enforcement of the law, but I am convinced that there are no new elements which ought to cause me to recede from the position I took last year...
...have but little relation to the problem of peace, the issue as to whether the United States should not "join" it or not can hardly be placed on the ground that peace will thereby either be promoted or retarded. That issue, I believe, is unreal and fanciful. Perhaps we ought to aid any movement that even looks to the judicial settlement or disputes, but when one of the announced inducements for our joining the court is that we would never have to submit a case to it, encouraging an inference that probably we never would, one may properly question...
...Catholic" advertisements you reprinted from The New York Times on Page 24 of your Oct. 26 issue are not "news" and you ought to have known it and never printed them...
...have to admit that the place for a ribbon is around a candy box or the head of a child. Therefore these colored bits of happiness which adorn some of the more collegiate headgear around the Square ought to make you just excited as I, for compared to them most of the other affectations of the parvenues pale into insignificance...