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Ask the businessmen of Europe, whose enterprises have been stolen from their owners, whether the limitation of profits and personal incomes is too great a "sacrifice.
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gutenberg.orgFDR: “Ask the businessmen of Europe, whose enterprises have been stolen from their owners, whether the limitation of profits…”
Editor's note · Context
Roosevelt points to the plight of European businessmen to argue for limiting profits during wartime.
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