Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Smoot's argument: The Government will have a surplus of $500,000,000 this year. Taxes ought to be reduced by exempting all incomes of $3,000 and less; scaling off $100,000,000 of taxes on incomes from $3,000 to $6,000; scaling off $100,000,000 of taxes on incomes from $6,000 to $10,000; reduction of maximum surtaxes to 331/3%; abolition of the "nuisance" taxes on candy, jewelry...
...floors of the Senate and House bills of the Administration, the radicals and Democrats can amend and alter them to their hearts' content. The result would be bad for the Republican Party and unsettling to business. "For expediency's sake,," say Messrs. Smoot and Green, " we ought not to try to do what we ought...
...such he can safely aim a few shafts of criticism at an ordinary prohibitionist such as Mr. Coolidge. There is already a record of his marksmanship: 1) At the Citizenship Conference of the Council of Churches (TIME, Oct. 22) he declared with thinly veiled criticism that the President ought to take direct control of prohibition enforcement. 2) At the Conference of Governors he was a leading member of the group which "put over" the prohibition memorial. There is small doubt that his hand guided the pen which wrote into that memorial this critical paragraph: "The national Government alone has control...
...talking like that. If Germany is capable of paying she ought to pay?to pay to the limit of her ability. There can be no doubt regarding that on any principle of civilized jurisprudence But are we going to use bayonets to rip open purses or prod haystacks with sabres to find gold? There are better means of finding out than that...
Well-it's fine to meet a romantic novelist again, after all these able young gentlemen whose text-book is What Every Young Man Ought to Know. I fancy such things do not greatly worry Mr. Farnol. He takes the facts of life for granted and proceeds from that basis to write of the things which lead away from life. Only think what a book Carl Van Vechten or Floyd Dell might have written if either one of them had been, like Jeffery Farnol, a stagehand and a scene painter on Broadway for two years-or perhaps it would...