In 1932, Eddie Cantor, the popular comedian and one of forty-two thousand investors in [the failed] Goldman Sachs [T]rading Corporation, sued Goldman Sachs for one hundred million dollars while regularly including in his vaudeville routine bitter jokes about the firm. One: ‘They told me to buy the stock for my old age…and it worked perfectly…Within six months, I felt like a very old man!’
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- from here; it reminded the Stumblng Tumblr of his reading that the American tv talk show host David Letterman has been continually having a go at Senator McCain on air over some recent perceived slight
- some Eddie Cantor video clips posted earlier by the Stumblng Tumblr can be found here (from 1923), here (from 1932) and here (from 1930)