Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court's decision expounding the President's power in the "vast external realm" of international affairs (TIME, Jan. 4), and made it clear that the stupid Congress which last year, in extending the Neutrality Act, refused to grant him discretionary power in proclaiming arms embargoes, ought now to see the light. Then he asked his hearers please to excuse the homily but it was a matter on which he felt strongly...
North Dakota's long-nosed Nye, whose defunct Munitions Investigating Committee fostered the Neutrality Act, talked of a new committee to investigate Jersey City's Cuse. "Such an inquiry," added this Senator, "should cover more than this Vimalert affair. We ought to find out how much material other Americans have been sending to the Fascists as well as to the Loyalists in Spain."- Most armorers agree that in spite of the Arms & Munitions Control Office, small shipments of war material have constantly seeped illegally...
...over Dartmouth sews up the championship of the Quadrangular League, for who could imagine the weakest Eli team in years even approaching this year's Crimson. Joe Stubbs' team should have little difficulty with the Tigers, and unless they have another case of over-confidence, the margin of victory ought to be at least six goals...
...There is some danger," wrote the Archbishop of York, "that regret for the loss of the brilliant qualities and sympathy for a monarch who in critical days was confronted with a most painful choice, may divert our attention from the fact that the occasion for this choice ought never to have arisen. The harm was not done in December or even in October when he announced his intention of marriage to the Prime Minister, but much earlier...
...musical, they insure his life for a million dollars. Thus is created the master situation of the picture-a contest between Powell, as salesman of the policy, to keep Hobart alive, and his defrauders' determination to kill him off. To any person of the slightest moral stamina, it ought not to be laughable to see two low fellows trying to drown a middle-aged man, supposedly sick, in a swimming pool. Yet this scene is very funny. So are the results when the villains, now desperate, hire Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) to excite J. J.'s passion, hoping...