Word: rubinsteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stockholders of the Panhandle Producing and Refining Co., sleek, glib Serge Rubinstein, 37, last week made a self-sacrificing gesture: he resigned as president and chairman to save the stockholders "embarrassment...
...Russian-born adventurer in international high finance who had dazzled Wall Street by his lightning-fast climb to control of 17 companies* in four years had filed false affidavits stating that his induction would leave his dependents without financial support. In severing his four-year connection with Panhandle, Rubinstein did not go away emptyhanded. He sold 296,525 shares of Panhandle stock for a profit...
...Fields. If the stockholders thought Rubinstein's motive altruistic, the U.S. Government did not. It immediately asked Manhattan's U.S. District Court to raise Rubinstein's bail from $20,000 to $1,000,000 because he was about to flee the country in a four-motored C-54 he had just bought. Furthermore, said the Government, Rubinstein was dumping his securities, and probably had $5,000,000 in cash. He had opened a big bank account in Mexico...
Brusquely, Rubinstein explained that 1) the plane had been bought at the request of the Portuguese Government for a new airline, and 2) the cash in Mexico was for Rubinstein enterprises. The court was unimpressed. It set bail at $500,000. Rubinstein said he would "take legal steps...
...Come Snobs." Polish Pianist Artur Rubinstein, visiting Rio, decided to trick her into playing again. He invited her to Rio's empty Municipal Opera House, asked her to play some chords so he might test the acoustics. She sat down at the piano at 2:30, played until 8. Said she: "It was a put-up job." She played three years in Latin America, earning enough to pay her way to the U.S., and the $1,400 that a Carnegie debut cost...