Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee, volunteered the opinion that the testimony showed nothing to reflect on Judge Wilson, but "it may reflect on some other people." At that Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes, superior and champion of Governor Pearson, blew up. At a press conference he stormed that "the hearing ought to bring forth just a few facts," raged that Judge Wilson was "bringing the administration of American justice into disrepute in the Islands'' and ought to be removed for "judicial misconduct." Then he released a letter he had written to Chairman Tydings. Excerpts...
...Stooge Stoner who had been sentenced to hang. An appeal by Stoner's lawyers was dismissed by the Lord Chief Justice as "a mere waste of time." The Lords of Appeal apparently felt that public opinion had gone hog-wild in sympathy for a youth who most certainly ought to hang...
Senator Huey Pierce Long: "I suppose a columnist substituting for Walter Winchell ought to reveal some of the gossip of the Senate. Well, here goes...
...Newton D. Baker, the late Jane Addams, Harold H. Swift ("the cream-puff type"), Louis D. Brandeis ("He contributes $100 a year to a filthy little Communist college down in Arkansas"). Then a little man in the rear of the committee-room whispered to his neighbor that the witness ought to be named Mrs. Dillinger instead of Mrs. Dilling. The neighbor, who happened to be Husband Albert Wallwick Dilling, promptly uprose and smashed the little man's jaw. The hearing adjourned in an uproar...
...Denver up from a "street car college" into a serviceable university. No scholar, prophet or pioneer, he had yet won his colleagues' respect by proving himself an able, diplomatic administrator. Last week he soothingly promised to spend a year looking over the situation in Oregon. "A new chancellor ought not to make, and will not make, any changes in the current policies," said he. "What has been done thus far under the able guidance of Dr. Kerr and the State Board has unusual significance, as the foundation for the program has been soundly laid...