Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that codes should universally be imposed. . . " The excessive centralization and the dictatorial spirit [of NRA] are producing a revulsion of feeling against bureaucratic control of American economic life. The trouble, as I see it, is not in the act but in a midsummer misconception of what could and ought to be attempted under...
...drive capital to hiding places, where no amount of coaxing or bludgeoning does any good. Investors need to be reassured in the immediate future as to the extent of the inflation which the administration may carry on if psychological factors are not to assume an importance which they ought by no means to have nowadays. Several weeks ago there was a better feeling among owners of money than today. Talk of inflation has brought apprehensions. When it is cleared up by a sound money policy, there will be a better national psychology
...detrimental. . . . It would seem to me ... in view of the fact that the NRA is a menace to political rights and constitutional liberties, a danger to American ideals and institutions, a handicap to industrial recovery and a detriment to the public welfare, that the publishers of a free Press ought to tolerate it less and expose and oppose it more...
...such work. It is a profession by itself, and no person shifted afternoons from Lehman Hall can really fulfill this specialized function. If the University wishes to make anything more than a half-hearted stab at a problem which it has confessed to be important, then it ought to secure the part time services of an expert in this field. A University can render hardly any greater service than the prevention of misfits; and the helpful guidance of men into the most genial careers...
...administration and the farmers disagree only upon the method of raising farm prices; that farm prices ought to be raised seems eminently patent to both. But not to Pollux and myself. What is needed is not higher prices, but more and faster money. Given a limited flow of money, higher prices simply mean lower physical turnover, less industrial activity, and deeper depression. Only an increase in the flow, that is, in the velocity times the quantity of money, can produce the greater turnover of goods which alone means prosperity for farmers or for anybody else. From the specific standpoint...