Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
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Texaco Oil considered Eddie Cantor a problem. After the comic emceed several rallies for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, Texaco pulled their sponsorship, and the program was canceled. Six months later, Texaco chairman Torkild Rieber resigned after he was exposed for secretly supplying oil to Hitler and providing classified information about American shipping routes to the Nazis.