Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...origin of this has been the determination of the American people, the main support has been the courage of those in authority and the effective method has been the budget system. . . . This system is a law of the Congress. It represents your will. It must be maintained and ought to be strengthened by the example of your observance...
Lynching?"The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the Negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims...
...farmer himself are the only real sources of restoration. Indirectly the farmer must be relieved by a reduction of national and local taxation. He must be assisted by the reorganization of the freight rate structure, which could reduce charges on his production. To make this fully effective there ought to be railroad consolidations. Cheaper fertilizers must be provided. . . . Unless we can meet the world market at a profit, we must stop raising for export. Organization would help to reduce acreage...
There are a few specimens of the type "realism" in the collection which provoke the question, Is not the thesis of realism, a valuable and truthful thesis in itself, already proved to satiety? Ought not the case to be rested? The virus has been injected into the body politic these many years; are not all purposes of innoculation served? Surely the last pair of rosy spectacles has been dashed from the last contented nose; surely there is left no benighted Victorian who has not learned that "beauty" is a quivering suggestion of sex and neurosis? For there seems...
Under the present state of affairs no work can proceed. For there is neither a recognizable governing party nor a recognized Opposition. What the reported conferences among the Liberal leaders and between Baldwin and the king will bring forth ought soon to be apparent. Whether it be some loose coalition or a reconstructed Conservative cabinet under a new leader, it can only prove the most temporary of make-shifts. The situation cannot be cleared up, however, until the permanent trouble is removed--until either one of the parties is outlawed, or a dual system, changed to meet the exigencies...