Mr. Rubenstein. A couple of years, I think.
Mr. Griffin. How did you happen to leave that job?
Mr. Rubenstein. I was a missionary man. They broke me in, they tried to make a salesman out of me and they did, because I done a good job for them and I worked hard. I liked it, I liked it for two reasons. Traveling and selling and when you can sell you felt like a moral victory, you felt that you had a station in life, something to do. The job just ended. I covered the territory they wanted me to cover. I went from Chicago to the west coast, Vancouver, Canada, all over the west coast, all through the Middle West. I don’t think I covered—no, never went south. I didn’t go south, no. We didn’t cover it. We just covered the west, kept on going west and west and over to the west coast and up to Vancouver.
Mr. Griffin. Let’s now shift the focus a little bit and rather talk about yourself. Now let me ask you some questions about your family, your early family life.
Was there any discussion in your home as a child of the background of your parents—where they had come from, what they had done before they had come to this country?
Mr. Rubenstein. My father was a soldier in the Russian Army for about 7 years. If you know the history of the Russian people, one member of each family must serve, one member. My father was elected to serve.
Mr. Griffin. Let’s just talk about your father for a minute.
As you understand it where was your father born?
Mr. Rubenstein. Sokolov, a small town outside of Warsaw.
Mr. Griffin. What kind of family did he come from, do you have any idea?