magnate
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Then Miller enlisted investment help from his friend, railroad magnate Henry Huntington, transformed the boarding house into a hotel and renamed it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
In the 1870s, Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate and benefactor of the university that bears his name, funded an effort to find out.
From Slate ● May 25, 2026
A surfer and dog-collar magnate built his dream home on the coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
The financial documents suggest one of the two major funders is a foundation run by sugar magnate Igor Khudokormov.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
The parade ended at Darling Stadium, the namesake of the oyster magnate whose creative entrepreneurship had brokered the land deal with the federal government for the Langley laboratory a half century before.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
But I’ve tackled enough of it to inform you that, sadly, ignoring Charles Schwab or J. P. Morgan Chase will not make the ghosts of these greedy American business magnates go away.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
The Rand Club was founded a year later by mining magnates, including Cecil John Rhodes, who walked the future streets of Johannesburg and selected a corner for what he deemed an essential gentlemen’s club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
St John Harmsworth – brother of newspaper magnates Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere – made Perrier a byword for mineral water across the British empire.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
It is, by design, capable of confronting not merely individual wrongdoers but vast criminal networks and incalculably rich corporations and commercial magnates.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2024
During the bidding, tensions among the magnates sometimes boiled over.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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