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Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, making her first formal talk to her Connecticut constituents since election, charged that Washington was still fighting a "lazy war," plumped for a near-confisca-tory war tax on "the well-to-do & the rich," said she was for drafting "all capital, profits & plants" if labor was to be drafted, and ticked off the war manpower commission as a "small but apparently indissolvable group of waltzing mice & pretzel benders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fortunes of War | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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