Scrooges and suckers.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTilting at Windmills

These Americans were not saints, however. They didn't want to be Scrooge, but they didn't want to be suckers either. They saw themselves as shrewd businessmen, not easily gulled. So, when Roosevelt sought support for his trade of 50 destroyers to the British in exchange for...

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