Gilded Age
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Global Crossing, a company he founded that promised to lay undersea fiber-optic cable around the world, made him a billionaire on paper in less than two years, a faster rise than Gilded Age oil baron John D. Rockefeller or Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
The new national-security initiative moves him closer to replicating the work of his bank’s namesake, the Morgans, who helped bring together robber barons and Gilded Age financiers to backstop America’s industrial revolution and stave off financial crises.
Weeks after it was claimed that Swift, 35, and Kelce, 36, were planning to tie the knot at a historic Gilded Age mansion near the singer’s $18 million Watch Hill, R.I., vacation home, insiders have now alleged that the duo have, in fact, opted for a different venue even closer to the pop star’s beloved property.
From MarketWatch
Instead, as first reported by the Daily Mail, focus has now turned to the Gilded Age estate that is located about an hour away from Swift’s private Rhode Island residence and that has long been regarded as one of the most spectacular estates on the East Coast.
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These items, all life-size, reflect the taste of a Gilded Age industrialist.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
