magnate
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The Italian magnate had money to burn after the pandemic-era boxship boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
As for Keogh the lint-roller magnate, he says his operation wasn’t so passive at first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
It was commissioned by the railway magnate Edward Ladd Betts for his home in Kent and has since passed through various private collections.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
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
Financial backers of both institutions—the Chemical Foundation in Columbia’s case and William Crocker, a banking and railroad magnate, in Berkeley’s case—seemed eager to pony up funds to cover Sloan’s further research.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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 Wall Street Journal’s Gunjan Banerji is sitting down with business magnates, financial titans and upstarts from all walks of life to answer your questions about how they made their fortunes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
Also left unsaid: how many people will assist the two magnates and how that staff will be paid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024
During the bidding, tensions among the magnates sometimes boiled over.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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