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  Arnold Rothstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Today Arnold Rothstein is remembered by students of crime as the so-called mastermind of baseball's worst gambling disgrace, the Black Sox scandal of 1919 when the World Series was fixed.
Rothstein's record in prostitution and gambling cases was equally as impressive.
The Rothstein style was to hang back, to remain in the background while still seizing a major portion of all loot.
www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/rothstein.html   (1038 words)

  
 The life of Arnold Rothstein from The Good Gambling Guide
Rothstein was comfortable discussing his philosophy of gambling with his wife, but never the actual mechanics, and certainly not the people he interacted with.
Rothstein then went to “Big Tim” Sullivan to discuss “protection.” Sullivan, an Irishman who believed in marriage and large families, was delighted that his protégé had wed.
Rothstein sent Carolyn to fetch the horse while he maneuvered around the busy track drumming up business and, at the same time, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible so not to tip his hand.
www.thegoodgamblingguide.co.uk /spotlight/players/arnoldrothstein.htm   (2065 words)

  
 Arnold Rothstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 - November 4, 1928) was a New York businessman and gambler chiefly famous for his role as a kingpin of organized crime.
Rothstein's death was related to the fall of the corrupt Democratic political machine known as Tammany Hall, and contributed to the rise of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
Arnold Rothstein's estate was finally declared bankrupt ten years after his death by his only surviving brother, but he left a legacy of shaping the form of American organized crime in the 20th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arnold_Rothstein   (1141 words)

  
 Gambling And Gaming - Old And Sold Antiques Auction
Rothstein died at 10:15 Tuesday morning and an autopsy showed that the bullet was slanting downward, apparently fired by a person standing on his right as he sat, perhaps talking to someone in front of him.
Rothstein asked District Attorney Joab H. Banton to take instant custody of all of Arnold Rothstein's files, ledgers, and personal account books lest many prominent people blow their brains out if their names were made public.
Rothstein was also behind huge bond robberies, having at one time recovered and returned $25,000,000 worth in an agreement that gave him 10 per cent-of the bonds for himself.
www.oldandsold.com /articles01/article932.shtml   (3769 words)

  
 ROTHSTEIN
Rothstein confided to his friend Nicky Arnstein, the husband of actress Fanny Brice, "A couple of people told me that the game was rigged." Arnstein’s advice to Rothstein was to pay the players off, "no point to your advertising you were a sucker."
Rothstein’s two brothers, Jack and Edgar, were summoned to the hospital along with Arnold’s wife, Carolyn.
Rothstein was given a blood transfusion, and morphine for his pain.
crimemagazine.com /rothstei.htm   (1268 words)

  
 Al Rothstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
But the truth is Rothstein did not fix the Series, but was familiar with the people who fixed the series and made a fortune betting on the right side.
Police begged him to name his killers as he lay dying, but Rothstein, true to his profession, placed his finger on his lips, until his head slumped and he died.
Rumors that Rothstein was holding an Ace High flush at the time of his death were untrue.
www.ipsn.org /rothst.htm   (227 words)

  
 The Major Players
They told him they had a proposition for him, Rothstein said he was busy betting on horses and for them to go wait in the track restaurant, he would get back to them.
Evans was a partner of Arnold Rothstein, is the man who assured Rothstein the fix was for real, and throughout the fix process he was known as "Brown".
Rothstein had given instructions that Cicotte was to hit lead-off man Maurice Rath, a token of his compliance with the deal, which Cicotte did.
www.blackbetsy.com /jjmajor.htm   (1739 words)

  
 Murder Inc.: Jewish Gangsters in America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rothstein explained to Lansky that he wanted Lansky to be part of a scheme in which they would illegally import premium alcohol from various countries during the prohibition time.
Arnold Rothstein was famous for illegal gambling and importing alcohol during Prohibition.
Arnold Rothstein was shot dead November 4, 1928, in the lobby of the Park Central Hotel in New York City.
www.ilperetz.org /graduates/michael_sugarman.htm   (4205 words)

  
 Amazon.de: King of the Jews: The Arnold Rothstein Story: English Books: Nick Tosches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rothstein himself really doesn't appear until two-thirds of the way into the book (although earlier chapters about religion, fascism, political correctness and other subjects of interest to the author alternate with excerpts on the criminal from an old Brooklyn newspaper and from surrogate's court proceedings).
After opening with Rothstein's death in 1928, Tosches embarks on a lengthy linguistic study of the Bible's change from "gods" to "God," then proceeds to debunk the myth that all European Jews came to the New World fleeing pogroms, pausing to explore early U.S.-Russian relationships, before even depicting Rothstein's grandparents' arrival in Manhattan in 1852.
Along the way, he includes transcripts of a hearing regarding Rothstein's contested will and a first-person rant that starts by saying the Holocaust is inappropriately named.
www.amazon.de /King-Jews-Arnold-Rothstein-Story/dp/0241141443   (394 words)

  
 Shadow man - Salon
Clearly Arnold Rothstein has stirred something in Tosches, but he's not sure what that is, and the result is we don't know either.
Because Arnold Rothstein is a shadow figure beyond good and evil...
The minor league myth of Arnold Rothstein isn't big enough to hold all the metaphors, mysteries and metaphysical baggage that Tosches tries to cram into it.
dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2005/07/12/tosches/?pn=2   (709 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series: Books: David ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Writing a biography of the notoriously secretive Arnold Rothstein, a rum-and-drug-running, bookmaking loan shark who became one of the richest men in the world, is a gamble that, for the most part, pays off for Pietrusza (Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis).
Arnold Rothstein grew from a rebellious Jewish boy of the tenements to one of the most influential and conniving criminal minds in history.
Rothstein's relationship with his wife stands in complete contrast: the one person from whom he did not intend to make money he put on such a pedestal that he found himself unable to approach her as a wife, as a woman, and of course this created further suffering.
www.amazon.com /Rothstein-Times-Murder-Criminal-Genius/dp/0786712503   (2878 words)

  
 Beyond the Gemstone Files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
With Rothstein’s influence with the police, the prosecutor’s office and Tammany Hall, he helped protect the bucket shop operators from legal harassment and from regulatory laws that might be initiated in the state capital.
Rothstein was not a pioneer in the field of dope peddling, instead he was introduced to the big money potential by both Lucky Luciano and Waxey Gordon.
Rothstein’s goal was higher as he set out to regulate supply and demand and organize the drug trade on an international basis.
www.tenntimes.org /gems2/1900-1929.htm   (5468 words)

  
 TIME.com: The Dedicated Gangster -- Feb. 23, 1959 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Gangster Arnold Rothstein's life story is the sort of straw out of which psychologists make their bricks.
Rothstein went to work for Big Tim as a kind of errand boy, and began to show the wisdom he was later to express so clearly: "If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you?"
Arnold Rothstein was a dedicated man. His clothes were plain and neat.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,825629,00.html   (727 words)

  
 Arnold Rothstein
His father, wealthy businessman Abraham Rothstein, was dubbed by New York governor Al Smith "Abe the Just." A pious man with a reputation for philanthropy and honesty, Abraham Rothstein served as chairman of the board of New York’s Beth Israel Hospital.
By 1912, when he was thirty, Rothstein was a millionaire from the profits of his gambling parlors and the racetracks he owned.
Rothstein, who never met the players and could honestly say that he never approved Attell’s scheme, testified in his own behalf and was acquitted.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Rothstein.html   (842 words)

  
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Rothstein told them to go wait in the track restaurant because he was busy betting on horses.
Rothstein was the only man with that kind of money.
Evans assured Rothstein that the fix was on.
members.tripod.com /~capone77/scand.html   (1659 words)

  
 Rothstein, Arnold - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
ROTHSTEIN, ARNOLD [Rothstein, Arnold], 1883-1928, American gambler, b.
Supposedly beginning his career at the age of 12, Rothstein became a professional gambler and operated gaming houses in New York City, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Long Beach, N.Y. He had a reputation for betting large amounts of money, and once bet $140,000 on a horse and $100,000 on a single throw of the dice.
Rothstein was believed to have contacts in high places and was often accused of being the mastermind behind large gambling scandals (in particular the "Black Sox" baseball scandal of 1919, where eight members of the Chicago White Sox confessed to accepting bribes to throw that year's World Series to Cincinnati).
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-rothstei.html   (341 words)

  
 Powell's Books - King of the Jews by Nick Tosches
So begins Nick Tosches's sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, which, in fact, is so much more: not only an elegy to old New York but an idiosyncratic history of the world as told in Nick Tosches's inimitable style.
This is the sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, a mythical New Yorker who was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls.
Rothstein was also rumored to be the mastermind of the Black Sox scandal, the fixing of the 1919 World Series.
www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0066211182   (495 words)

  
 Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
Rothstein had only invested money in the stock market once, but much of his bankroll came from his involvement in the ownership and protection of Wall Street operations known as “bucket shops.” A bucket shop was a legal brokerage firm and while many operated within the law, others did not.
Here Rothstein acted as a “lobbyist and public relations man for the bucketing industry.” In addition, he served the shady operators as a bondsman and fixer.
Rothstein helped finance Costello when he and his brother got started in rum running shortly after Prohibition began.
www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_3-1-99.html   (1520 words)

  
 1919 Black Sox
Burns would be a key figure during the fixing of the 1919 World Series as he was the middle-man between the players and Arnold Rothstein.
Rothstein initially declined, but soon changed his mind and supported the idea.
Rothstein never admitted involvement nor was it ever proven he funded the fix.
www.1919blacksox.com /participants.htm   (1293 words)

  
 BrothersJudd.com - Review of David Pietrusza's Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed ...
The key is that the folks who surrounded Rothstein and the activities he engaged in are truly fascinating and Mr.
But best of all he captures the evil of Rothstein, that was not readily apparent in his personality, in a chapter on how he established the modern drug trade.
Pietrusza has taken the personally bland Arnold Rothstein and woven the anything but bland events of his life of crime into a compelling and corrective biography.
www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1358   (794 words)

  
 Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
Meyer Wolfsheim in "The Great Gatsby" and Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls." He was rumored to be the mastermind of the "Black Sox" scandal, the fixing of the 1919 World Series.
Rothstein confided to his friend Nicky Arnstein, the husband of actress Fanny Brice, "A couple of people told me that the game was rigged." Arnstein’s advice to Rothstein was to pay the players off, "no point to your advertising you were a sucker."
On Sunday night November 4th, McManus called Rothstein from room 349 in the Park Central Hotel where he was registered as George Richards.
www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_1-25-99.html   (1276 words)

  
 Poker Player :: Newsletter
Arnold Rothstein was a gambler, a gangster and a genius.
Born in Manhattan, NY, in 1882, Arnold grew up in an era when men like steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, railroad mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt, and oil czar John D. Rockefeller were building industrial America.
Similarly, Rothstein brought together the diverse elements of the underworld and fashioned them into a highly profitable industry whose products and services were illegal.
www.pokerplayernewspaper.com /newsletter2.php?id=46   (1032 words)

  
 Movie Info for King of the Roaring '20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein on MSN Movies
David Janssen is hardly perfect casting for the role of 1920s gambling king Arnold Rothstein (Rod Steiger or Gene Barry may have been better choices), but the sure-handed direction of Joseph Newman smooths over all the rough spots in this fanciful biopic.
When O'Herlihy engineers the death of Rothstein's pal Mickey Rooney, Rothstein pulls strings in the New York judicial system, assuring the conviction and execution of the rogue cop.
Curiously, King of the Roaring Twenties bypasses Rothstein's involvement in the "Black Sox" baseball scandal of 1919, perhaps because too many participants in that debacle were still alive in 1960 (this incident would later be covered in toto in the 1988 film Eight Men Out, which co-starred Michael Lerner as Rothstein).
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=72328   (259 words)

  
 The Infamous Mr. Rothstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rothstein’s pal, former featherweight champion Abe Attell, however, saw promise in Burns and Maharg’s simple yet ambitious scheme.
When the scandal broke, Rothstein went to Chicago, and with the support of White Sox owner Charles Comiskey’s attorney, bamboozled the investigating grand jury.
Rothstein was big in all these occupations, and each generated more income than fixing some postseason baseball exhibition.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/10/prweb300554.php   (1038 words)

  
 Arnold Rothstein
Big, The Fixer, The Big Bankroll, The Man Uptown, and The Brain - Arnold Rothstein seemed more myth than man. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby, and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls.
Within months of Rothstein’s death, Clarke wrote In the Reign of Rothstein, a memoir of the reporter’s friendship with such luminaries of the day as William J. Fallon, Nicky Arnstein, Fanny Brice, Gertrude Vanderbilt, Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Rothstein himself.
When he first appeared in the news, Rothstein was a slim, young man of 26, with dark hair, a complexion remarkable for its smooth pallor — as if it never had to worry about razors — white, skillful hands, and amazingly vital, sparkling, dark brown eyes
crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/rothstein/index_1.html   (754 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Arnold Rothstein (Crime And Law Enforcement, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Arnold Rothstein[rOth´stEn] Pronunciation Key, 1883–1928, American gambler, b.
While playing cards in a hotel room he was murdered : allegedly for reneging on a bet.
See D. Clark, In the Reign of Rothstein (1929); C. Rothstein, Now I'll Tell (1934); L. Katcher, The Big Bankroll (1959).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Rothstei.html   (196 words)

  
 MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: King of the Roaring 20's - The Story of Arnold Rothstein
This film is telling of the Arnold Rothstein story.
Rothstein, a gambler and con man is probably most infamous as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series -- the Black Sox affair.
That event is not even mentioned in this film, so what we get is the story of a young Jewish boy, from a solid upper middle-class background who has a passion for numbers and money.
www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=2687   (223 words)

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