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...Interactions with the public were once almost unheard of at Mars, inviting inevitable comparisons with another privacy-loving chocolate baron, Willy Wonka....
...American robber-baron capitalism was powering ahead while the British aristocracy was in decline. In 1874, the tattooed (!)...
...Maxwell Sr was, by all accounts, a nightmare — not for nothing does the presenter compare him to Logan Roy, the fearsome patriarch in the TV series Succession....
...The first Baron Rothschild and John Pierpont Morgan rocked up on their yachts....
...Richard Bethell, the first Baron Westbury, was approaching his 70th birthday when he tried his hand at asset management. The politician had served as lord chancellor, overseeing Britain’s legal system....
...The old robber baron might recognise a few things in Donald Trump’s America, a new gilded age where plutocracy and populism drive politics, rich men’s charities take on the social issues of the day and Washington...
...John D Rockefeller Sr was one of the wealthiest men of all time, with an estimated net worth of $340bn in today’s terms....
...The case has been brought on behalf of British citizen Deir Santos by law firm Edwin Coe, which has a history of bringing class actions....
...No wonder Holiff Sr finally killed himself. (No spoiler. We’re told this at the start.) No wonder, too, that this film plays like a non-fiction Walk the Line with script input by Eugene O’Neill....
...Dos Santos Sr appointed as head of the armed forces a former Unita commander....
...Lord Moynihan, the fourth Baron Moynihan, was himself educated at the fee-paying Monmouth School before going to Oxford university and becoming an Olympian himself as cox to the British men’s eight at the...
...Abess, Sr. and Baron de Hirsch Meyer founded the North Shore Bank on 71st Street in Miami Beach. Sounds sweet....
...In 1968, Romney Sr was briefly favoured to become the Republican nominee for the presidential election....
...Stiles’s superbly written book argues that the main legacy of the “robber baron” and “railroad king” was the giant but invisible corporation, so big that it was able to crush its competitors....
...Mr Coe's knowledge of the Olympic movement helped London press the right buttons....
...Candover was advised by Barons Financial Services, a boutique investment bank based in Geneva and London, and Alpha Corporate, a Spanish equivalent based in Madrid and Barcelona....
...She has not forgotten the role played by George Bush Sr in encouraging reunification while his European allies were hesitating.”...
...Pat Butcher is the author of The Perfect Distance: Ovett and Coe – The Record Breaking Rivalry (Orion)...
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