baron
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Patriarch and oil baron Ed Doheny and wife Estelle acquired the home in 1901 and the Doheny family made it their home for nearly 60 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
As early as 1859 the New York Times associated Cornelius Vanderbilt with the idea of the medieval robber baron, thus tarnishing the image of the country’s biggest shipowner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
Cruise was at CinemaCon earlier in the week to preview a very different film, Digger, in which he plays a grey-haired oil baron who has to clean up his environmental mess.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Not because Mullin, a wealthy plumbing baron from Oklahoma who’s served in Washington since 2013, has a distinguished legislative record.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2026
When the baron expatiated upon the superior practices of Europe, the Indians were baffled.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
In 1826, young Benjamin Disraeli popularized the word “millionaire” to describe the new industrial barons in his novel “Vivian Grey.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“There used to be a lot of barons but now he’s the only guy,” Kuper said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
From Koli fisherfolk to colonial planners, and from Bollywood stars to textile barons, many have shaped the western Indian city's landscape and identity.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
This was the age of robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil was a business “trust” comprising dozens of companies in numerous vertically linked industries.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
The girls ran the place themselves, and they did so with the cunning of robber barons.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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