Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive they tend to disappear. I am not making any argument with the man who believes that 55 per cent ought to be taken away from the $1,000,000 income, or 68 per cent from a $5,000,000 income; but when it is considered that in the effort to get these amounts we are rapidly approaching the point of getting nothing at all, it is necessary to look for a more practical method. That can be done by a reduction of the high surtaxes...
...purchase of a small amount of arms and munitions of our Government for the purpose of insuring his own domestic tranquility. We had either to re fuse or to comply. To refuse would have appeared to be equivalent to deciding that a friendly Government, which we had recognized, ought not to be permitted to protect itself...
...LEON DAUDET: "I consider that it is the commencement of the reactionary measures to which I aspire, and I hope to have them applied some day as they ought to be applied...
...than he is the opposite of a law-abiding wet. Thus this competition cannot possibly be considered an answer to Mr. Delcevare King's. It is but the beginning of a mud-slinging contest between wets and drys, and as such I do not think it ought to have the support of the CRIMSON which is a paper that should be above participating in such contests. --Horr Rooxey Gaulf...
...Hawkers-a Royalist organization) to four months' imprisonment. Although he was not implicated in the original charge he came forward and took the blame for the assaults. In the Appeal trial he again assumed the fullest responsibility for everything that had happened, and told the Court that it "ought really to pass a vote of thanks and congratulations." Instead, the judge doubled M. Maurras' sentence. The Camelots du Roi assembled outside the Court, made a hostile demonstration against the Judge, cheered M. Maurras...