Ocupation: Author
Life: May 16, 1912 - October 31, 2008
Birthday: May 16
Death: October 31
I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.
source: Studs Terkel (2013). “Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression”, p.83, The New Press
topic: Brother, People, Buying, Lehman Brothers, Buying Stocks