While Paul emigrated to Egypt at the end of the World War I, his father, mother, and brothers remained in Lodz.
Kalmanowitz arrived in the United States in the 1926 by jumping a merchant marine ship[2] and jumped from job to job, working for several notable people such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and Louis B. Mayer (MGM).
Stanislas departed from Le Havre in April 1946 in steerage on the SS Oregon, a ship of WWI vintage.
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opened an investigation of the Falstaff purchase, and found it provided shareholders with false and misleading information.
Kalmanovitz's plans to make a profit off Falstaff were not to turn the company around and reestablish its brand strength in the market, but rather to cut costs drastically.
Falstaff's market share continued to slide, resulting in plants closing and employees out of work.
Kalmanovitz acquired an ailing brewery, fired the corporate personnel, reduced budgets, sold equipment, stopped plant maintenance, and eliminated product quality control.
Kalmanovitz established a standard with Falstaff that was repeated as he purchased Stroh's, National Bohemian, Olympia, Pearl, and Pabst.
Breweries were not Kalmanovitz's only interests; he was involved in helping Guide Dogs for the Blind and several other charitable organizations.
[5][6][7] Kalmanovitz specialized in leveraged buy-outs,[8] which take over businesses to sell off their parts for profit, closing plants and laying off employees.
"Kalmanovitz thought nothing of throwing hundreds of brewery workers out onto the streets, cutting off their pension and health benefits … " according to one historian.
[10] After his death, a former legal secretary said, his associates toasted him with Jack Daniel's, saying, "Ding dong the king is dead.