Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President he emphatically vetoed it. What right, he asked, had corporations to buy goodwill by making contributions to charity? Why should corporations give to charities money which stockholders ought to have the right to contribute personally? When the President's opinions were published charitarians were bitter. What difference, they asked, was there in a corporation giving it to the unemployed on behalf of its taxpayers? Said Alan Burns of the National Council of Community Chests: "Any conception of corporate responsibility that does not include an obligation to local private charities belongs to the horse and buggy days...
...field there is an amazing diversity of occupational backgrounds. Sixty-three are experienced farmers, 17 are aviators, 17 newshawks, one a baker, seven professional baseball players, one a surveyor, one an oil gauger, 37 with banking experience. Two were radio announcers. ("That's the pair they ought to shoot," jests Director Hoover...
...these American girls came over here the Dorchester was losing money hand over fist!" said Manager Clifford Whitley of its "Leroy Printz Hollywood Beauties." Chimed in Manager Felix Ferry of Grosvenor's "Monte Carlo Follies," "If England is going to turn our girls out, I think our Government ought to do something about English chorines now cashing in back home." In Manhattan next day correspondents, if they expected to find President Frank Gillmore of the Actors Equity Association up in arms, were in for a disappointment. "We don't have any competition in this country from English chorus...
Christian Leader: "The Sunday School children of the U. S. ought to pay the amount of that verdict with pennies...
...obliged to seek in the antecedent part of the letter for the opinion to which it referred ... I found it in these words: 'General Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared in substance that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of Government.' The language of Doctor Cooper plainly implies that he considered this opinion of you, which he attributes to me, as a despicable one; but he affirms that I have expressed some other still more despicable; without, however, mentioning to whom, when...