financial magnate

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Epstein, a financial magnate who rubbed shoulders with the elite and politically powerful, maintained an apartment at a luxury Paris address near the Arc de Triomphe.

From Fox News • Sep. 11, 2019

If a big financial magnate will not supply money for an enterprise on the merits of the thing he is not likely to do so because a friend asks him.

From Gossamer 1915 by Birmingham, George A.

That he should have mistaken me for a great financial magnate controlling some one of these colossal industries, instead of locating me instantly as a staid, gray-haired, and rather impecunious landscape-painter, was quite natural.

From The Under Dog by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

It happened that the Confederate loan had been floated in Europe by Baron Erlanger, also a Frankfort financial magnate, and by birth a Hebrew.

From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 by White, Andrew Dickson

He looked exactly what he was, the trusted secretary of a financial magnate, and he seemed to me a man whose dress, manner, and speech would always be made appropriate to the occasion or situation.

From The Gold Bag by Wells, Carolyn