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FDR: “Perhaps an effort should be made to be a little more drastic in preventing the manufacture of luxuries.”

On the recordOctober 19, 1942
Perhaps an effort should be made to be a little more drastic in preventing the manufacture of luxuries.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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