Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They ought to use their legal remedy and not the remedy of force." A squat, sloppily dressed man with a mop of uncombed hair and the face of a kindly bulldog, William Hammatt Davis, 61, is a successful Manhattan patent attorney who has long made labor relations his avocation. He has served in many a Government agency, State and national, was chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. To him belongs credit for settlement of the Allis-Chalmers strike, which Labor Department conciliators had given up, OPM's Hillman had fumbled and OPM's Knudsen...
...modern business distribution. "The gallery system," he argued, "is doomed. The rich collector class is dying out. There is no use in the galleries just sitting around complaining and waiting for the few old collectors who are left to come in and buy an occasional picture. American art ought to be handled like any other American business...
...roses. Most unions have had to win better wages and shorter hours by the mailed fist rather than the oily word. Yet occasionally a union organizes effectively enough, and the employer is intelligent enough, to avoid the exercise of collective strength. When that happens, union members ought to shake their apron-strings in glee. It's happening all right, but some of the workers are responding rather perversely...
...University under an agreement reached with the unions earlier this year. It is an essential act of self-defense by the workers organizations-for funds are the lifeblood of a union, without which it cannot exist to protect and improve the status of its members. Delinquent unionists ought to wake up to the fact that by holding back on their dues they are doing more than endangering their own jobs-they are hurting the union of their fellow-workers just as much as Aldrich Durant could do if he woke up one morning and decided to act like Mr. Ford...
...plea for an assertive American literature, Brooks adopts the optimistic viewpoint himself. He characterizes the period we are now going through as growing pains, and feels that eventually our writing will become emotionally mature. When the opposition lines up its full firing power, the battle ought to be well worth watching...