Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the Governors Conference in Richmond in April. They had shaken hands. The Governor had told him he had made a "very good speech." In Wartime Washington under Woodrow Wilson they used to be good friends and see much of each other at informal Sunday suppers. That old relationship ought to save the campaign from getting personal and dirty. His advisers assured him the country was conservative and that Governor Roosevelt could be depicted and defeated like a second Bryan...
...propose," shouted Senator Barkley, "to reduce the exorbitant and indefensible rates ... to inaugurate friendly international trade conferences. . . . The Democratic Party does not advocate free trade. [We] wrote, sponsored and secured the passage of a measure which ought to lift tariff-making above the sordid processes of log-rollers and back-scratchers and place it upon the high plane of scientific knowledge. ... But Mr. Hoover vetoed the measure...
Miltiades spends his money fast. "If I have money I think I ought to do beautiful things with it. He opens a department store, buys an estate. He proposes marriage to Drusilla Crowninshield. an old flame of his, marries her daughter Sydna instead. Drusilla knows him of old: "You really are an outrageous man. . . . You appear to people who don't know you as a most conventional man. but you really stick at nothing and regret little...
...grinning Will Rogers, wishing they were "back in China where something really happens." It was evident from his second Convention colyum that Reporter Gibbons, who also spoke over NBC, found nothing important happening. Wrote he: "Hello everybody! Chicago looks like it might be going to a picnic. And Chicago ought to be picnic enough for anybody. Why, you can take a taxi and in a few minutes you're out of the heat and crowds of the Loop. Out passing green trees, beautiful parks, smooth drives? right out to the Edgewater Beach Hotel...
...shake the Rogers hand appeared Henry Lewis Mencken, eating a big black cigar. "Who's going to be Vice President, Will?" asked he. Reporter Rogers favored Charles Curtis. "The Republicans should not show so much race prejudice," ob served Mr. Mencken. "They had an In dian last time. They ought to get a nig ger this year...