| 单词 | baron |
| 例句 | Such barons as these have their own dominions and subjects, who recognize them as masters and have natural affection for them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z When the old King came to his throne it had been an England of armoured barons, and of famine, and of war. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept the minds of the barons of Castile occupied with this, so that, concentrating on that war, they did not consider rebellion. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z These two conservative barons had never yielded to Arthur, and they did not believe in any form of government except the rule of force. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s going to be mighty fine to be land barons, isn’t it?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “But did her mother agree to the baron’s decision? Did she not fight to keep her daughter?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At a dinner given by the Baron of Rosenberg, Tycho, having robustly drunk much wine, “placed civility ahead of health,” and resisted his body’s urgings to leave, even if briefly, before the baron. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll be sure to tell the baron of your generosity,” my father said carefully as the mayor lay the pennies into his hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z By “steel barons,” the strikers meant the owners and top executives of the steel companies, many of whom were among the richest men in America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I saw the baron’s messenger leave our house, and my father was saying, “This time I must go and fight.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a vast expanse of cherry wood the size of an English baron’s dining table; smoked glass covered most of its surface. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There were so many distinguished-looking men in the park these days—statesmen, princes, architects, and the city’s industrial barons. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z First came the people with actual inherited titles, such as baron or viscount; then came the wealthy landowners, and then the prosperous businessmen. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Because the least valued oil leases were offered first, the barons usually lingered in the back, leaving the initial bidding to upstarts. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Here, round the King's castle, there were streets—not just one street—and castles of dependent barons, and monasteries, chapels, churches, cathedrals, markets, merchants’ houses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon’s surgeon, the baron Dominique Jean Larrey, performed the first operation. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The baron’s family and servants hid in closets and under beds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came Pope Julius, and he found the Church powerful, possessing all of the Romagna, having destroyed the Roman barons, and having annihilated their factions by Alexander’s blows. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The barons came for the auction of Osage leases, an event that was held about four times a year and that was overseen by the Department of the Interior. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There might go another baron at full tilt after some dragon or other, and bump! down he might come, while the horse cantered away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was mainly the wealthier Europeans who became land barons, plantation owners, and successful businessmen in the colonies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z And thus, from the ambitions of the priests are born the disorders and the quarrels among the barons. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I watched the baron’s piggish face chew open-mouthed on the sacrificial pig. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The baron who had drafted my brother would still be bearing sway over our village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Charming fellow, lovely singing voice. Met him when we were entertaining the baron last Midwinter.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The girls ran the place themselves, and they did so with the cunning of robber barons. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This one was William Cavendish, seventh Duke of Devonshire, who was a gifted mathematician and steel baron in Victorian England. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In exchange, the secretary allowed the barons to tap the navy’s invaluable strategic oil reserves. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Your baron has pledged fifty men from this district, one from each family,” he said, and then named the family names. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were executed like the barons in the stories, when they were not barons. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Let you think of beetles or honey, sweet baron, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest” “Nonsense,” exclaimed the Wart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Hassan said, “I'm a Kuwaiti exchange student; my dad's an oil baron.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The illicit payoffs were as yet unknown to the public, and as the barons moved toward the front of the Million Dollar Elm, they were treated as princes of capitalism, the crowd parting before them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Marland, the oil baron who found the Burbank field, had built a twenty-two-room mansion in Ponca City, then abandoned it for an even bigger one. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He had lain awake all night, imagining how he was going to beat the best barons in England, and he had not been able to eat his breakfast. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I was getting a lesson in the sort of influence a wealthy baron’s firstborn son could bring to bear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The knights of the Round Table were sent out as a measure against Fort Mayne, and the choleric barons who lived by Fort Mayne took the cudgels with the ferocity of despair. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When the baron expatiated upon the superior practices of Europe, the Indians were baffled. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Alexander, Beowulf, and Cassiopeia sat across from her, along with the Earl of Maytag, Baron Hoover, and a woman whom Penelope quickly identified as the baroness due to the way she scowled at the baron. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The baron and his family —all of his family—were knocking their heads on the floor in front of their ancestors and thanking the gods out loud for protecting them from conscription. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Having dropped my soldiers off at crossroads and bridges, I attacked the baron’s stronghold alone. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When no one accosted me, I sheathed the swords and walked about like a guest until I found the baron. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He had sent out the men of might to rescue the oppressed and to straighten evil —to put down the individual might of barons, just as he had put down the might of kings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It took him a little while, as my father had not bothered to mention the majority of the baron’s titles such as the Viscount of Montrone and Lord of Trelliston. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even with the murders, they kept on coming, the greatest oil barons in the world. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z These days, when finance barons are more often in the news for the most unspiritual of pursuits, it’s a legacy that seems all the more singular. Television Review: John M. Templeton, Remembered by Relatives, on Bloomberg TV 2013-12-25T18:07:21Z "The Descendants," Alexander Payne's comic drama about a Hawaiian land baron and his splintered family, received five nominations. 'The Help,' 'The Artist' lead Golden Globe nominations 2011-12-16T04:07:20Z Fit for a king — or at least a baron. A Lisbon Food Court Housed in a Palace 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z And similarly, those press barons of the turn of the century, there were lots of them. ArtsBeat: Julian Fellowes Overcomes His Scruples and Looks Back at Season 2 of 'Downton Abbey' 2012-02-20T04:47:01Z Brolin sees some irony in his "Wall Street" role as a financial baron whose mantra on money is: "More." Life after Bush: 'W.' star Brolin still on a roll 2010-05-16T11:31:00Z In the Journal’s case, there’s an ongoing civil war between its news staff and its opinion side, as well as a wider war among news organizations controlled by the family of media baron Rupert Murdoch. A Wall Street Journal columnist said Joe Biden was part of Hunter’s business deal. Hours later, its news reporters said the opposite. 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z And then, in 1872, his primarily scenic work took a detour, thanks to the curiosity of a railroad baron. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z "I don't think the market is as jittery as you suggest," says the baron, his smile hardening again. Simon de Pury: the Mick Jagger of art auctions 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z And inside, written on thick vellum, with a threaded ribbon holding an ancient royal seal, is one of four surviving copies of the 1297 Magna Carta, a contract between English barons and their tyrannical king. Exhibition Review: ‘Records of Rights’ at the National Archives 2013-12-16T23:52:04Z True, the narration that bookends the show includes gabbled allusions to Chekhov’s life: apparently there are some incidental connections between him and a Russian baron in Lugano, Switzerland, whence hails Mr. Finzi Pasca. Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z In fact, the design simply burst forth from the imagination of a baron with effulgent facial hair. Design: Who Made the Olympic Rings? 2012-07-12T04:47:18Z But when considering the alternative — the plunderers, robber barons and overt racists who tried to wipe the native imprint from the land — Grinnell was ahead of his time. The Forgotten Man Responsible for Our Most Iconic National Parks 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z The children remain little beasts; his father remains a baron of bluster and a deluded idealist, still smitten with the promise of pan-Arabism. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The park became a playground for New York’s industrial barons — Morgan, Vanderbilt, Huntington, Whitney — who built hunting lodges, lakeside “cottages” with paddle-in boat houses, and resort hotels. Paddling through a painterly landscape in New York’s Adirondack Park 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Generally speaking, I was an evil champagne baron selling the family champagne to the Nazis. Hugh Grant, answering everything 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Singer was the son of a steel baron of the same name who sold his company, Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Co., to Andrew Carnegie. On van Gogh’s birthday, a brazen theft raises alarms about crimes of opportunism during the coronavirus crisis 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z He indicts gangsters in sharkskin suits “wearing fancy gold rings,” the new ruling class of financiers and robber barons. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z The campus, once the winter estate of the robber baron Jay Gould’s son George Jay Gould, is home to the Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum. A Garden Crawl Through the Garden State 2010-06-24T21:42:00Z But unlike the dozens of other would-be whiskey barons setting up shop in Kentucky these days, Mr. Heron and his wife, Lesley, weren’t interested in making bourbon. American Brandy Is Surging, Even in Whiskey Country 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The book contains an unexplained war, love gained and lost, a baron gnawing on a rat for nourishment, and a very large hole called the Very Large Hole. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The basic premise is that in what remains of civilization 500 years from now, society is divided into hierarchies run by barons and powered by “cogs,” or slaves. Smart Watch: "What We Do In the Shadows" is a comedy with bite 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The Osborns are descendants of John Jay, the first chief justice of the United States, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad baron. John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags. Leveson: the Movie – casting opens on the world's wackiest courtroom drama 2012-11-29T15:31:02Z As the story goes, they fell in love, she got pregnant, and the baron said he’d marry her if she had a son. Betty Rowland, One of Burlesque's Last Queens, Dies at 106 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z In many respects, Detroit is America’s last frontier, the modern day equivalent of the Old Wild West, with its pockets of gold, its robber barons, carpet baggers, swindlers, peddlers, hustlers, buskers and super heroes. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The fact that the baron did not condemned the collection of 256 pieces to a peripatetic existence within the British Museum and to periods of storage. A Sleek Home at British Museum for Ferdinand’s Gift 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Borg, for instance, is not just Louis the accountant but a pervy German baron, an Italian vocal coach and an Irish priest with a taste for opera. Review: Camp and Compassion in ‘The Confession of Lily Dare’ 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Nobody has emerged from this imbroglio with much credit, but prime ministers are supposed to make judgments according to loftier criteria than press barons. TV highlights 11/06/2012 2012-06-10T19:00:01Z But the wealth created in the capitalist economy didn’t just enrich the coal barons, it also enabled the development of new technologies, medicines and professions that made many lives materially better. What the People of Appalachia Want 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z But it takes seeing a biographical, extensively sourced look at the baron's family to appreciate the accuracy of his portraiture. With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence," CNN has its "Succession" 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Miles notes that he was born in Wimbledon, where Cromwell eventually became baron. Ben Miles Takes on ‘Wolf Hall’ Onstage 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z No longer content to pattern themselves on European nobility, these capitalist barons began spending their money “in an American way,” Fellowes said. ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Meanwhile in the cities, vast immigrant armies were mobilized by ruthless and often violent “robber baron” capitalists to build vast industries that made things: steel, railroads, ships, cars, skyscrapers. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, once business partners and later bitter rivals, both built magnificent estates overlooking Central Park, as did other robber barons of the age. Spare Times for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:42:52Z Sam Sandison, the Montana settler turned ranch baron, turned rare book collector, mentions his intention of writing a memoir. Ivan Doig’s ‘Sweet Thunder’: baiting the Anaconda monster 2013-08-16T21:57:10Z Even now, when we recall the lordly “barons” of the late nineteenth century, we call them “robbers.” How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Doig introduces Sam Sandison, a fearsome former ranch baron with a penchant for expensive rare books — and easily the most unforgettable librarian in all of American fiction. Ivan Doig's 'Work Song' is epic novel of miners, strikes and hardship 2010-06-23T23:37:00Z Just over 20 years ago, the Koranic scholars and land barons who run the secretive Saharan state presided over a pogrom against black Mauritanians who lived there. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z A former army surgeon turned wealthy financier who, according to rumour, acquired the seeds of his fortune by murdering a business associate, Taillefer has reinvented himself as a press baron. Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts 2012-12-12T16:27:54Z The Mulholland Madness roller coaster, named after an infamous California water baron, is now Goofy's Sky School. Disney unveils theme park redo with Cars Land 2012-06-13T06:16:04Z Christine, a corporate lawyer, had recently separated from Austin Hearst, the grandson of the media baron William Randolph Hearst. The Man Who Bought New York 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z ALL of the auto barons' homes are worth a visit! In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z We envisaged a daring gallop into a land of ranchers, oil barons and frontiersmen. Close up: South by north-east 2011-03-17T16:52:22Z A real-estate baron and reality TV star from New York, Trump often crossed paths with Letterman in Manhattan. “He was a joke”: David Letterman would have never predicted Donald Trump would be President 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z The baron is adept at smilingly applying positive spin. Simon de Pury: the Mick Jagger of art auctions 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z A slave-master — in Dan Beard’s original illustration he resembles the robber baron Jay Gould — brutally whips an exhausted woman for stumbling as she tramps along in a chain gang. Review | Your perfect July 4 read: A book packed with politics, preaching and fireworks 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The baron is multilingual: he can electrify an auction in English, French, German, Italian and Russian. Simon de Pury: the Mick Jagger of art auctions 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z The naughtiest nights unfold at Pensão Amor, which suggests the tufted salon of a debauched baron. What to Do in Lisbon 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Her body was flown home on Tuesday night in a private plane owned by Anil Ambani, a Mumbai industrialist and entertainment baron. Sridevi: thousands mourn at funeral of actor who redefined role of female Bollywood stars 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Along with best drama, “The Descendants,” about a Hawaii land baron and his troubled family, took home a best acting Globe for George Clooney. ?The Artist? and ?The Descendants? Win Golden Globes 2012-01-16T05:19:04Z Hubert de Givenchy retired from the haute couture business nearly 20 years ago, but the design baron’s sophisticated taste still turns heads. Inside Hubert de Givenchy's Private Antiques Collection 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z So the new episode - surely the first without Hagman's deliciously vile presence - stands as a fitting tribute both to him and to J.R., complete with a wake and a funeral for the rascally oil baron. 'Dallas' funeral for J.R. honors Larry Hagman 2013-03-08T14:10:43Z These thoughts occur to me as the beaming baron sweeps across the floor of his auction house in a tailored blue suit with matching silk tie. Simon de Pury: the Mick Jagger of art auctions 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z Sportello finds himself at the center of a shadowy, irreverent noir-like conspiracy involving skinhead bikers, a strung-out real estate baron, a detective called "Bigfoot" and a heroin operation fronting as a dentists' association. For 'Inherent Vice,' Phoenix plays complicated on and off screen 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Called Shindy Mike, Regan builds himself into a ruthless shipping magnate and real estate baron who is despised and feared. Theater Review: ‘The Boss,’ at Metropolitan Playhouse 2012-11-27T23:13:08Z Flush with millions, these tycoons — for all their disrepute as robber barons — enhanced the great cultural institutions. The 20 Years That Made New York City 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The mayor is diverting public funds for a cathedral while proffering a large dowry to marry his 11-year-old daughter to a baron’s contemptible son. The Art of Animated Reality: Walerian Borowczyk and Jacques Demy 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Last Wednesday, to celebrate the opening of their first store, on Madison Avenue, the designers had a cocktail party, followed by a dinner at the home of Adam Lindemann, the radio baron and art collector. New York Fashion Week: New York Fashion Week; For Proenza Schouler, a Big Leap 2012-09-08T01:10:01Z All the elements are there: the egomaniacal robber baron and his band of thugs who invade the small town, pit the locals against each other and ride roughshod over the law. From Gunsmoke to Deadwood: why the US turns to the wild west in times of crisis 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z "Yes, it is true I am a baron, but nobody ever calls me that, apart from the BBC," he says, shaking my hand, his incessant rictus smile hardening. Simon de Pury: the Mick Jagger of art auctions 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z People who protested surface mining were communists, coal barons said. A Green New Deal ignites an old red scare 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The oil baron ... his wife passed away a year ago. Queen of Soul fractures toe on designer shoe heel 2011-06-21T21:16:04Z Palm Beach was founded a century ago by the barons of the Gilded Age and has maintained a strict code of understated elegance, private clubs and exclusion. Having a ball, in lavish fashion, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z He delivers a painstaking history of how public land became real estate, and how hundreds if not thousands of people were pushed aside by one or two barons. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Q: Sir Axlerod is a former oil baron who puts on a race to show off his new clean-burning fuel. "Cars 2" star Eddie Izzard plans political career 2011-06-24T19:24:36Z The 79-year-old will reprise his role as oil baron JR Ewing in the new pilot, to be made by US network TNT. Hagman to return for new Dallas 2011-02-02T08:55:03Z Its progenitor is Irvine Sellar, who first made his name as a baron of boutiques in the 1960s rag trade, before moving into property and going spectacularly bust in the early 90s. The Shard: A symbol of towering ambition 2011-01-30T00:05:57Z I would say that’s true, but mostly because Davenport treats all of the barons as heroic saviors of the crumbling dreams of the space age, boldly taking charge of our destiny. Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z There’s been far too much slobbering over barons of the new economy in the last 15 years for readers to understand that this narrative may be slightly different. Review: ‘A Truck Full of Money’ and a Thirst to Put It to Good Use 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The old barons had many problems, but at least they were occasionally interested in getting things done. John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Rooms dedicated to the baron’s conspicuous consumption — a dining room, for example, that seems to have been spray-painted with 24-karat gold — alternate with more conventional galleries. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z He is at once a baron of bluster and a princeling of tiny grievances, the sort who declaims too quickly, laughs too nervously and argues too gustily with the news on the radio. Review: In ‘The Arab of the Future 2,’ Back to Syria in 1984 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It begins in the mid-eighteen-hundreds, with Ah Ling, a migrant worker in California who becomes the manservant and personal laundryman for a railroad baron. The Anxious, Unfinished Story of Chinese-American Assimilation 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Take note of Pabst’s well-appointed study, which contains an enormous humidor to hold the Captain’s beloved cigars, and secret panels used to stash liquor, documents and whatever else a beer baron might want to hide. 36 Hours in Milwaukee 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Seven “barons” control the country, employing warriors called “clippers” to protect them from the other barons and from marauding bands of “nomads.” Review: ‘Into the Badlands,’ Drama With Martial Arts on AMC 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Paul Dacre: Another study in contrasts: the Daily Mail baron who delivers sermons about middle-class values while littering his newsroom with cuss-words. Leveson: the Movie – casting opens on the world's wackiest courtroom drama 2012-11-29T15:31:02Z But where did the baron get his idea for the design? Design: Who Made the Olympic Rings? 2012-07-12T04:47:18Z One "tobacco baron" declares that he leads a "nice life" inside the 1,280-capacity male prison in west London. Wormwood Scrubs 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z What, for instance, was it like to be a beef baron in Buenos Aires, a wine merchant in Algiers or a tyre manufacturer in Tokyo? 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-05-08T10:30:01Z The press baron was resolute: “The thing has to be done! Better to lose circulation than to lose the war!” Telling tales 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z I don’t want you to end up with your phone getting hacked, but is Richard Carlisle in any way supposed to be a gloss on a certain publishing baron of the modern day? ArtsBeat: Julian Fellowes Overcomes His Scruples and Looks Back at Season 2 of 'Downton Abbey' 2012-02-20T04:47:01Z “You’ve Been Trumped” lards in excerpts from Bill Forsyth’s 1983 film, “Local Hero,” in which the residents of a fictional Scottish coastal town foil the attempts of a Texas oil baron to build a refinery. Movie Review: ‘You’ve Been Trumped,’ an Unflattering Documentary 2012-08-02T14:29:16Z Her marriage at the age of 15 to the son of a French baron set in motion a family scandal whose intricacies enthralled the novelist Stendhal. Christina Vella, Author of Sizzling Works of Narrative History, Dies at 75 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z In the video for his song “God’s Plan,” from earlier this year, Drake plays a genial, emotional baron, doling out a million dollars to grateful Floridians. How Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon” Viciously Undercuts Drake’s Celebrity 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z "Overlook Hotel" features the character of Bob T. Watson, a robber baron in the late 1900s who was the first owner of the lodge that would serve as the famously frightening setting for "The Shining." Mark Romanek in talks to direct 'The Shining' prequel 'Overlook Hotel' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z It also makes history irrelevant, because it separates what we might learn about, say, racism or the robber barons in the past from issues of the here and now. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z And I found the original maps, and the parkway was a straight line right through the estates of the great robber barons of the nineteen-twenties. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The space barons are shrewdly—one might say cynically—tapping into our respect for astronauts and our idealism about what space represents. Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The family of the liquor baron Sam Bronfman, who supported these institutions, were our nobility. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z I admire Cosimo, the young baron, who decides to leave all and find an alternate life in the trees. Salman Rushdie, Diana Gabaldon and other authors reflect on the books they find most transporting 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z So, too, did his work exposing the rapacious practices of the Force Publique in the Belgian Congo and of rubber barons in the Peruvian Amazon. The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa – review 2012-06-08T21:55:06Z At the turn of the 20th century, they were as rich and powerful as the digital barons are now. On a Georgia Island, a Lot of Good Food and Plenty of Nothing 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z He was ennobled by Belgium's king as a baron in 2001 and received the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award in 2009, the highest U.S. jazz honor. Musician friends celebrate Thielemans' 90 years 2012-09-30T03:04:08Z Rivera concentrated on the production of cars, from beginning to end, with such fidelity to the industrial process that he was praised by engineers and auto barons for his mastery of the details. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The train was named after the Great Northern Railway’s founder, James J. Hill, a Canadian-born rail baron known for his industrial empire that stretched from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest. Still on track at 50: Amtrak celebrates a half-century of operation 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z He assumes that, win, lose or draw, he will be rewarded by the barons who will prop up his waning support at the 2015 general election. The Leveson debate is now about politics, not the press 2013-03-18T07:00:23Z The barons renounced their oaths of allegiances to him and captured London. Surviving Magna Carta copies to be brought together for the first time 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The headquarters are in a stately 19th-century mansion and stone barn, beautifully designed for the cattle baron who once owned the land with every modern convenience for the family. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z This show is about the survivors getting revenge on the baron. The Bastard Executioner: latest medieval drama won't slay you 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z June 27: President Trump officially declares his son a baron, because somebody said he couldn’t. Style Invitational Week 1365: Dead Letters, our obit poem contest 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Streisand’s approach, a magpie American practice of cherry-picking objects from disparate cultures and eras, dates to the robber barons’ pillaging of Europe. T Magazine: Streisand?s Cozy San Simeon 2010-12-02T14:40:00Z It’s no unions and the robber barons can come in with their industries and just go! The 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times has been the subject of books and film. Now it's a bus tour 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The Bill Pullman character, the evil one who doesn't die – is there something of a certain media baron about him? TV review: Torchwood; Single-Handed 2011-07-14T21:05:07Z From private equity predators to rightwing media barons, cynical demagogues and doublespeak lawyers, the 1% essentially elect our leaders and create our laws now. Breath of fresh heir: how Succession became the must-watch TV of the year 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z This is not lost on the new space barons, who grew up and now do business in the shadow of our official and unofficial space mythologies. Bezos Reaches for a Star 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Overall, the court found, “there is no evidence that the baron made any inquiries regarding the painting’s provenance or conducted any investigation of the painting’s provenance before purchasing it.” Court Rules Spanish Museum Can Keep a Painting Seen as Nazi Loot 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The director reveals that an ageing, widowed patriarch – the silver-haired, white-bearded Francisco, a former sugar baron – once owned the whole area and is gradually selling it off for redevelopment. Neighbouring Sounds – review 2013-03-24T00:06:39Z George Clooney stars as a Hawaiian land baron whose perfect life falls apart when his wife plunges into a coma after an boating accident. Alexander Payne dishes on "The Descendants" 2011-11-18T14:24:20Z There’s an elaborate historical backstory involving the property’s long-ago proprietor, a baron whose misdeeds caused the local peasantry to burn down his château on the very site where the institute is now housed. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z That would be interesting to see; stories of emergency supplies that sit unused at ports or are siphoned by black-market barons are common in crisis zones. ‘Call for Help’ Documents Young People on a Mission in Haiti 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z They may showcase an intelligence baron or two to give us a glimpse of their omniscience and – wait for it – openness. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z Henry I, determined to forge a sacramental bond between his daughter and England's magnates, compelled his barons in 1127 to swear their support for her as his successor. HBO’s "House of the Dragon" was inspired by a real medieval dynastic struggle over a female ruler 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Welles, just 26 at the time, directed, produced, co-wrote and played the lead role in the 1941 film, which was loosely based on the life of the newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Citizen Kane' 2011-03-14T21:37:53Z Often portrayed as a "robber baron," Gould in this story is a businessman who reins in ego-driven road builders. 'Rival Rails' tells the story of the Santa Fe Railroad 2011-01-06T00:10:04Z It's terrifying to see the change from a family man into this insane drugs baron. Matt Stokoe's favourite TV 2013-04-01T11:00:00Z Good news," said Richard, "Spencer the drug baron has been arrested. Digested read: Ex-Wives by Sandra Howard 2012-07-22T18:29:01Z Robber barons and elite universities commissioned custom products from Yellin’s workshop, which had hundreds of employees and took in millions of dollars a year. How Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z He’s got his own novel forthcoming, about a man who, like him, is the son of a steel baron who rejects the family business. Novels of White Status Anxiety 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The baron is due back the next day, so there are meals to plan, boots to shine and other metaphors about one's relative status in life to polish. In 'Miss Julie,' Liv Ullmann is too faithful to Strindberg play 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The baron is about to marry Sophie, the young daughter of Faninal, an ambitious striver who has made a fortune selling arms. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z America’s newest newspaper baron is a hedge fund whose co-founder and chief executive has ties to President Trump’s most tabloid-worthy stories and whose publishing assets include the National Enquirer. ‘A lot of uncertainty’: Staffers at renowned McClatchy newspapers mull bankruptcy sale to tabloid-owning hedge fund 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z The space barons were all outsiders as young men; they’re all obsessed with rockets; they all want, more than anything, to win. Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z These bad guys are the evil-of-the-moment that we might most want to see punched in the face: Soviet masterminds, drug dealers, Silicon Valley moguls, terrorists, media barons. Video Game Review: DmC Is the New Devil May Cry Game From Capcom 2013-01-28T22:48:32Z The midnight out-of-competition opener will be a romantic action movie, “Machete,” Robert Rodriguez’s tale of “a legendary ex-federale with a deadly attitude” and his personal battle against a Mexican drug baron. Venice Gears Up for 67th Film Festival 2010-08-31T11:30:00Z "Let me tell you we weren't the only ones who suffered," says the baron. Simon de Pury: the Mick Jagger of art auctions 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z A woman who manages a civilian search team for missing persons takes on the case of a landowner and lumber baron who alienated a lot of people, including his ambitious daughter, before he disappeared. 41 TV Shows to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z He sleeps alternately in mosques, hayricks and grand estates, and meets wealthy barons and humble peasants in homespun clothing. Q&A: Reflecting on a Writer’s Walk Through Europe 2014-03-21T16:44:21Z Drug baron Harvey Wratten is murdered, drawing a diverse group of people together. 2011 TV preview: gangsters, gap years, off-world colonials 2011-01-01T00:05:29Z Like the robber barons, billionaire philanthropists such as Warren Buffett and Gates have come to believe that they are best placed to spend the money that might otherwise have gone into state budgets from taxation. From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Professor Carpenter said the barons were angry with the taxes that the king was levying to fund foreign wars and his abuse of justice, among other issues. Man Arrested in Britain on Suspicion of Trying to Damage Magna Carta 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The idea of a job is that you can participate in a formal economy even if you’re not a baron. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z So, seven different barons, who are sort of like plantation owners, rule this country. Into the Badlands: slavery sci-fi with a kung fu edge that's unlike anything else 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The Bassetts weren’t traditional robber barons, and their story was truly one of a kind. In Beth Macy’s ‘Factory Man,’ a Struggle to Stay Competitive 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Some of the goods, such as one of the world's largest collections of Napoleonic memorabilia that was amassed by sugar baron Julio Lobo, were housed in Cuban museums where they remain. Despite detente, search for art looted in Cuba could take years 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Zuckerman acquired it in 1993 after a previous owner, British tabloid baron Robert Maxwell, fell off the back of his yacht and drowned. Analysis | How one newspaper deal explains the decline of the newspaper business 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Mallya, known as “the Branson of Bangalore” in his heyday, is a liquor baron and the owner of a Formula One team. ‘The Billionaire Raj’ Review: Gatsby on the Ganges 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Lady Mary calls off her engagement to Sir Richard Carlisle, who is said to be inspired by the powerful press baron Lord Beaverbrook. ‘Downton Abbey’ and History: A Look Back 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The museum could point to the great collections of art in major museums around the world and argue: Is this not the largesse of plutocrats, robber barons and colonialists? An art loan from Bill Cosby draws the Smithsonian into a national debate Her father is a baron who worked in finance and now produces plays. Up Close: Joséphine de la Baume – Actress and Musician 2013-05-29T20:18:39Z The baron probably acquired this box and other souvenirs in China at the notorious “loot auctions” that followed the suppression of the Boxers. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z If you were already inclined to think that the Japanese seafood game, like so many other things in Manhattan, is rigged in favor of the robber barons, these restaurants won’t change your mind. Japanese Seafood Without the Painful Price Tag, at Wokuni 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z It was bought by the first Baron Penrhyn and passed down through the family until 1949, when the fourth baron died, and his property was donated to the government in lieu of inheritance tax. Rembrandt Portrait Denied Export License Will Be Shown in Britain 1466-12-20T05:00:00Z More to the point, it is owned by a company headed by conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch. 6 things we learned from Sean Spicer’s first official White House briefing 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Kuke's father, Pali, who accepted a loan from a tribal baron to buy studio equipment imported from Germany, was known for documentaries and television shows. Visual effects artist's Hollywood path began in Albania, with detour in Kosovo 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The paramour was Pepe Fanjul, an older Florida sugar baron with family roots in Cuba, an appetite for lavish displays of wealth and a devoted wife. The Party Girl, Till the End 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z To them the Russells are vulgar robber barons who came from nowhere, outfitted their garish palace with castoffs from European aristocracy and must never entire their social circle. "The Gilded Age" is a glittery confection that's more "Dynasty" than "Downton Abbey" 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z She arranged a meeting with Mr. Ullens, a titled baron and married father of four who had recently sold his family’s beet sugar refinery for $1 billion. Myriam Ullens, Philanthropic Baroness With a Disputed Fortune, Dies at 70 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z According to the bar’s website, famous figures in South Africa’s history — sports stars, dignitaries, even the controversial diamond baron Cecil Rhodes — trod the floorboards of the old Persies, as it is known. A $1,000 Day in Cape Town for $100 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z “We have our own robber barons today. So it is somewhat unbelievable that we are here again, but here we are.” ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z It’s one thing to say that New Yorkers are all about money because Wall Street and Trump Towers are here… But how would Cruz feel about oil barons in Texas? What Cruz really meant by “New York values”: Trump is a symbol of “a decadent, elite, money-grubbing, morally lax metropolis” 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In "Death to My hometown", Springsteen assails the "greedy thieves and robber barons" who "destroyed our families, factories and they took our homes." Springsteen lashes out at bankers in Berlin show 2012-05-31T00:44:52Z The cast of characters, which includes double-crossing lawyers, a U.S. attorney and arbitrageurs galore, represents a modern-day version of the barons jockeying for the crown in Shakespeare’s English histories. Seduced by Ayad Akhtar's 'Junk,' the new play that picks apart the Wall Street playbook 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z He writes: “The coal barons no longer ruled Appalachia. Now it was the painkiller profiteers.” How Painkiller Pushers Took Over Coal Country 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The story follows a lawman struggling to bring his territory to order when wealthy cattle barons declare war on immigrant settlers. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Night Of’ and ‘The Circus’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z What inspired his cheerful contempt for the feudal barons who tussle over the Iron Throne while their serfs starve in the muck? Splinter is coming! The Game of Thrones spin-offs the world deserves 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Later a liberal state tamed market abuses in the form of America’s robber barons. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The problem is that Edgar’s novel, recently accepted for publication, is “about the son of a steel baron who walks away from his father’s money.” 'Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty' is a charming summer tale of wealth and its loss 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The private eye was Chandler's twist on Lancelot or Gawain, tackling the rogue knights of Los Angeles' criminal underbelly or the robber barons up in Beverly Hills. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z To say nothing of the army of craftsmen the feckless baron employs to meticulously restore the family’s medieval estate. Edmund White’s High-Octane Saga of Twin Sisters and 1950s Texas 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z When he is later introduced to Sophie, his betrothed, he fondles her in public, right in front of her obsequious father and young Octavian, the baron’s embarrassed emissary. Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z After all, Wisconsin's largest city was made famous by its beer barons who specialized in lager. The 5 best non-alcoholic beers we know 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Yesterday’s robber barons lived like princes; today, they’d rather be monks. The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z At age 32, he’s the beer baron of Idaho, producing more than 10,000 barrels last year. Brew-ha-ha: Biking to breweries in Boise 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Does every American school child still learn about its ramifications: the way this document — a treaty, really — between a feudal king and his rebellious barons introduced a form of constitutional law into English tradition? Last Chance: Magna Carta at the Morgan Library: Its Birth Was a Royal Pain 2010-05-21T22:51:00Z Like Mrs. Parish, who freshened up the Kennedy White House, and Mr. Hampton, who elevated the habitats of 1980s-era robber barons, Ms. Rheinstein brought an American freshness to English country style. Suzanne Rheinstein, Designer of Classic American Interiors, Dies at 77 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z In 1980, its “Who shot JR?” cliffhanger kept an entire nation in suspense for the eight months between the oil baron’s attempted murder and the big reveal of the culprit. Once upon a time from America: how US television took over our screens 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Chronological ethnocentrism plays a helpful role for history textbook authors: it lets them sequester bad things, from racism to the robber barons, in the distant past. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z Until now, the table remained with the descendants of the baron for more than two centuries in the family castle about 25 miles west of Paris. More Paris Institutions Turn to Crowd-Funding 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z I don't need a baron, or a duke, or a vicomte. Homage to Harold Pinter 2011-08-07T20:31:01Z Helen Gould, a daughter of the robber baron Jay Gould, originally financed the public space. Antiques: ?American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960,? at Bard Graduate Center 2011-09-15T21:06:33Z His clients commissioned personalized etched patterns on their drinking vessels: Cuban officials wanted palm tree motifs, and robber barons asked for their monograms and the names of their yachts. A New Glass Museum Will Open in a Historic Factory 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z This is an exposé about “notorious water barons” in California who take advantage of state laws and systems, leaving themselves with plenty of water, even as the state has faced severe drought. At Sundance, the Theme Is Climate Change 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Thomas Allen, like Ms. Graham and Mr. Groves a Met veteran, comfortably fit into the role of a perplexed baron. Review: ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Met, Its Charm Exhausted 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Her maternal grandfather was a Scottish baron and contemporary of Maxwell’s father, whose own mysterious death made international news. She Survived a Tough Childhood. Then She Met Jeffrey Epstein. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Starting in 1945, the baron asked an artist to illustrate each vintage. Médoc, From Grand Cru to Country Cooking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The baron, who crudely boasts to the Marschallin of amorous adventures with servants, suddenly seems more dangerous, less laughable. Review: Renée Fleming’s Poignant Farewell to ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at the Met 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Originally the residence of a rice baron, it survived the demolition blitz that has ravaged Bangkok since the 1960s because it housed the Russian Embassy. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The show acknowledges the neighborhood’s history, from the Lenape tribe to Gilded Age barons and beyond, and meditates on the vexed intersections of the urban and the natural. Theater Is in the Streets of New York, if You Listen 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Even the cold-hearted media baron's last words revealed a warm corner of his heart for childhood nostalgia. When Paddington conquered Citizen Kane, a cinematic throwdown revealing our obsession with ratings 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Time Warner questioned whether Fox — led by the 83-year-old press baron — was capable of managing such an unwieldy and complex organization. Time Warner looks at ways to counter 21st Century Fox's buyout bid 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Vince McMahon plays the cruel and manipulative corporate CEO and robber baron who cares about nothing but maintaining and expanding his power. It’s all just wrestling to Donald Trump: Everything the GOP front-runner knows about politics, he learned from the WWF 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Montana had experienced a boom in copper mining in the early 20th century, and the associated “copper barons” had been buying up politicians to further their pursuit – decimating parts of the state in the process. Dark Money: how a documentary became a political thriller 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z “We’re capitalists!” said David Harbour of “Stranger Things,” who’d gone full robber baron with tails, a top hat and a cane. In austere times, the Met Gala returns to ‘Gilded’ era 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Raised in South Africa, Ransome is the granddaughter of the second baron of Drumochter, but she grew up with little: An uncaring father, an alcoholic mother and limited funds. Review | A Jeffrey Epstein accuser shares scathing allegations in a new memoir: ‘My book is my day in court’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Last year, she started selling the caviar to Crafted, a farm-to-table restaurant in downtown Yakima that is frequented by the local agriculture barons. For This Tribe, Saving a River Means Saving the Sturgeon 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The estate was built by a railroad baron, George Bullock, some hundred years ago. Billy Joel’s Got a Good Job and Hits in His Head 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The wine empire, Baron Philippe de Rothschild SA, included Opus One, a premium California estate the baron created with Robert Mondavi in the 1970s. What Baroness Philippine de Rothschild brought to the world of wine The baron is often portrayed as a pompous, hefty, old fool. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z The show departs from the film in that it is set in the present, and in Oregon, in a town where two rival marijuana-growing barons call the shots. ‘Bates Motel’ Grows in Character and Creepiness in Season 3 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Italian mobsters, Shorto argues, were no worse than the immoral robber barons of the late 19th century. Russell Shorto’s Grandpa Was a ‘Smalltime’ Mobster 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “The Descendants,” Alexander Payne’s drama about a Hawaiian land baron and his splintered family, received five nominations. Carpetbagger Blog: Golden Globe Nominations Go to 'The Help,' 'The Descendants,' 'The Artist' 2011-12-15T14:24:42Z During a tour of London, she met a Belgian baron, Jean Empain, who was one of Europe’s richest men, heir to holdings that included the Paris subway. Betty Rowland, One of Burlesque's Last Queens, Dies at 106 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The scheming barons, royals and turncoats would be more at home in Blanchett's "Queen Elizabeth" series than a Robin Hood movie. "Robin Hood" drops tights in new extreme makeover 2010-05-10T04:13:00Z There must have been some extraordinary barons on the other side. Last Chance: Magna Carta at the Morgan Library: Its Birth Was a Royal Pain 2010-05-21T22:51:00Z Territorial prairies are patrolled by sword-wielding enforcers — known as Clippers — who loyally protect the interests of their respective barons. ‘Into the Badlands’ has a kick but lacks bite 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Until Ferdinand’s death, the collection was housed at Waddesdon Manor, the French Renaissance-style château near London that the baron built for himself in the 1870s. A Sleek Home at British Museum for Ferdinand’s Gift 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z One more performer deserves mention: as the baron’s secretary, an invented character, the soprano Sharin Apostolou stole scene after scene with her whimsical expressions and flamboyant moves. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z "I united my professional with my non-professional passions," says the baron. Simon de Pury: the Mick Jagger of art auctions 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z The dueling patriarchs – the maple syrup baron Cliff Blossom and the absent yet menacing Hiram Lodge – fit right into the mold of tyrants past. New old money: why hating the super rich remains small screen gold 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z A classic tale of revenge – Paul turns to clowning after a wicked baron steals his life’s work and his wife – what else is a man to do? Scary toddlers and super creeps – helicopter parenting and the rise of 'kindergarten horror' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Essentially, it’s a sweeping, three-dimensional “best-dressed” list — one that starts with the wives of robber barons and ends with modern business executives. Art Review: How the Other Half Dressed 2010-09-16T21:44:00Z In the late 1870s, Elias "Lucky" Baldwin, the city's founder and one of Southern California's great land barons, hired architect Arthur A. Bennett to design a guest cottage for his sprawling ranch. How Arcadia is remaking itself as a magnet for Chinese money 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Her father, the 19th-century railroad baron Jay Gould, was known for manipulating stock prices and bankrupting business partners. Tiffany Show Reveals Helen Gould’s Role as Arts Patron 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Got any friends who are, say, international drug barons? Beast: restaurant review 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Dizzying, layered patterns formed borders around photo essays about the domains of robber barons, moviemakers, prisoners, hospital patients, orphans and star-struck teenagers. A Panorama of Design 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Also, the documentary Circus tracks one of Mexico's last travelling circuses, while Sins Of My Father is a son's view of drug baron Pablo Escobar. This week's new film events 2011-03-05T00:07:25Z This sweeping history of the decades after the Civil War decries the spoliations White sees everywhere among robber barons and corrupt politicians. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Lady Mary calls off her engagement to Sir Richard Carlisle, who is said to be inspired by the powerful press baron Lord Beaverbrook. ‘Downton Abbey’ and History: A Look Back 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Life-size dolls Soldiers Trees A baron and baroness Truly Scrumptious says that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is “a curious name for a motorcar”. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang quiz 2011-03-24T09:19:18Z Mr. Barton, the sculptured gym baron whose muscles twitched beneath a tank top, watched the high jinks blissfully. Scene City: David Barton and Susanne Bartsch Blend Halloween and Christmas in SoHo 2013-12-18T23:45:38Z When Ivanka Trump told Rupert Murdoch over lunch that her father intended to run for president, the media baron replied, without even looking up from his soup: “He’s not running for president.” How Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Rode the Honey Badger Into the White House 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The large breweries created by the German beer barons of the 19th century are long gone; the new Bushwick prefers microbreweries anyway. ‘Taxilandia’ Review: The Mouth is Running, but Not the Meter 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Across the seas, up the Amazon, through the archipelago, Chloe and her friends confront cruel rubber barons, bloodthirsty cannibals and kooky Mormons. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Universal Pictures In The Lone Ranger, the Masked Man and Tonto must confront two scurvy villains: an outlaw who eats his victims’ hearts and a railroad baron with murder and Manifest Destiny on his mind. Despicable Me 2 Makes Minions-Meat of The Lone Ranger 2013-07-07T20:34:25Z Its underlying message relates to oil production, railroad barons and Los Angeles noir. ‘Broadway Morey Boogie,’ With Over 100 Blocks of Public Art 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The baboons, seen as sacred animals or even incarnations of Thoth, the god of writing, were particularly suitable for a newspaper baron. Stone baboons returned to Cliveden after more than 40 years 2010-10-10T18:20:00Z Meanwhile, the Northeastern robber barons who owned the mills along the river built majestic music halls to resemble those in New York and Boston. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Going through the oil baron's papers, Chernow had expected to unearth "sordid tales of collusion with the railroads, the bribing of entire state legislatures, the coercion of small retailers." Ron Chernow receives biography award 2013-05-19T15:16:08Z Penn is also still embroiled in the El Chapo controversy after his interview with the drugs baron for Rolling Stone caused ire. Dead man squawking: Sean Penn joins Angry Birds movie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The baron retaliates by slaughtering everyone in the village while the men are gone and burning it to the ground for good measure. The Bastard Executioner: latest medieval drama won't slay you 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z His mounting military successes jogged the barons' memory of their past commitments, and the contending parties reached a settlement. HBO’s "House of the Dragon" was inspired by a real medieval dynastic struggle over a female ruler 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z You may not feel sorry for the energy barons, even if they risked part of their fortune to extract a form of energy cleaner than coal, safer than nuclear power and cheaper than oil. Matt Damon’s Promised Land: What the Frack!? 2012-12-21T10:45:15Z The titles - earls, viscounts, barons, marquesses and dukes - no longer indicate great wealth. In UK, aristocrats still face 'Downton' dilemma 2013-04-12T14:27:08Z “Death to my Hometown” rages about a community toppled without a shot being fired by “the robber barons.” Album review: Bruce Springsteen, 'Wrecking Ball' 2012-03-02T05:00:00Z With the violence hitting close to home, Kohlhaas and his team invade the baron’s castle on a stealthy assassination mission resembling a modern military covert op, crossbows wielded like assault rifles. Mads Mikkelsen Stars in ‘Age of Uprising’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the hugely successful News of the World tabloid that was the focus of the scandal - and which press baron Rupert Murdoch shut down to appease critics - was pronounced innocent. 'Great Britain' taps phone-hacking laughs, but not for all 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z The lawsuit, which is pending, appears to have set off a chain of events that led to demands for Ailes’s resignation from his bosses, media baron Rupert Murdoch and his sons, Lachlan and James. Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and network in final talks on exit 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Nearby, the baron and baroness also built the Ullens School, which offers an international baccalaureate curriculum. Myriam Ullens, Philanthropic Baroness With a Disputed Fortune, Dies at 70 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z In their view, history is written not by the winners, necessarily, but by the biggest sinners: the robber barons and the murderers who stooped to any infernal depth to conquer. ‘A Most Imperfect Union,’ a retelling of U.S. history by Ilan Stavans and Lalo Alcaraz Much of her venom is reserved for the owner of the Times and the Daily Mail, the press baron of the age, Lord Northcliffe. Telling tales 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z It is Midsummer’s Eve, and the baron is away but soon to return. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Here's a rundown of some of the other key titles, from the highest level of seniority to the lowest: duke, marquess, earl, viscount, baron. WEDDING WATCH: Kate tries out her royal wave 2011-04-29T11:33:17Z It was a playground for Northern robber barons, but after World War II it was largely abandoned. Q&A: Frances Mayes on the Lure of Southern Landscapes 2014-04-24T17:45:21Z Tony Blair and his cabinet, as ever taking their cue from the press barons, did the same. The Leveson debate is now about politics, not the press 2013-03-18T07:00:23Z Strip miners, Packer calls them, barons of an extractive industry with no investment beyond tomorrow. What We Mourned When We Mourned Cecil 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The house itself, we are told, was built by robber barons in the 19th century. An Epic Storm Turns a Summer Holiday Into Potent Allegory 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z And of course, Disney keeps mining "Star Wars" and Marvel like a robber baron. "Jurassic World: Dominion” is not a movie. It's a museum 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Bitter, rich old merchant Mr Panton makes a will in which his beautiful and accomplished daughter Constance will be disinherited unless she marries a man not "below the rank of baron". John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills 2012-07-06T21:55:19Z “God bless the indies!” exclaims Seymour Stein, who, like most of the other Warner barons, never forgot his origins. Stop predicting music’s future: The next Pixies, White Stripes or Adele will come from the indie ranks 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z The principals — a prince, a baron and a colonel — wore cravats and medals, flourished fountain pens, carried letters from the best investment companies, met with clients in elite legal firms and international hotels. 'Whipping Boy' digs up childhood bully and a fascinating story 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The Journal is owned by News Corp., whose executive chairman and principal shareholder is media baron Rupert Murdoch. Wall Street Journal reporters protest ‘sick man’ headline in Wall Street Journal 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The 1965 film was based on the real story of how the baron fell in love with the children’s governess, also named Maria, and the family toured together as a choir. Maria von Trapp, ‘Sound of Music’ Daughter, Dies at 99 2014-02-24T04:39:12Z A gig at the hotel — with its population of C.E.O.s, oil barons, hedge fund managers, real estate tycoons and foreign aristocrats — would be a major step up. In ‘The Pink Hotel,’ Delusional Newlyweds Head Toward a Grand Reckoning 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z That is how the robber barons in the mid-late 19th century carved up the steel mills, the railroads and the banks. From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z As his on-screen family and friends take in the news and pay respects at his funeral, it seems the oil baron has a final surprise up his sleeve. TV highlights 19/03/2013 2013-03-19T07:00:03Z But the story quickly gathers momentum as Nies introduces us to Eastern mobsters, construction barons, Mormon pioneers and their descendants, and a Utah-based attorney whom she describes as a master at manipulating Indian law. Judith Nies' 'Unreal City' built on huge water, energy deals 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But mainstream media barons still want to participate in ethnic media, for the same reasons politicians do. ‘One Nation with News for All’: Newseum looks at Ethnic media in America Italian merchants in the middle ages began by importing silk goods from Islamic countries to sell on to the barons and burghers of northern Europe. Bridging the gap: the east-west divide in art 2011-04-05T16:30:31Z But it was regained in 2001, when Belgian King Albert II named the musician a baron. ‘Toots’ Thielemans, master of the jazz harmonica, dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The baron adds that, of course, his appetite for a good “chase” will continue after marriage. Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The woman — her name is Clara Salvemini — is the glamorous, good-hearted, and mysteriously self-destructive daughter of a Pugliese construction baron, but her biographical details are the least important thing about her. ‘Ferocity’ Brings Florida Noir to Southern Italy 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Edward's bond with his barons never recovered; he spent the next 10 years plotting his revenge. 11 of the most influential royal lovers in British history 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z For more than a century zealous popes and bishops had laboured to extricate the church from its immemorial subjugation to kings and barons. Thomas Becket, Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim by John Guy - review 2012-05-18T21:55:07Z Many of its barons are long forgotten, dead or disgraced. Tina Brown’s ‘Vanity Fair Diaries’ Recall a Glossier Time 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z In 2007, Murdoch bought Dow Jones & Co. because the newspaper baron wanted to add the prestigious Wall Street Journal to his portfolio. Rupert Murdoch may not take no for an answer from Time Warner 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z During a hunt for a brutal killer working for the local crime baron, Adi gives chase to the main suspect and corners him in a narrow alley. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-21T19:48:29Z The robber baron Jay Gould supposedly bragged that he could hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. In Paul Schrader’s ‘Blue Collar,’ the Factory Floor Is Brutal 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The family of media barons at the center of HBO’s “Succession” seem to travel exclusively by helicopter. Somewhere Between a Shared Cab and a Private Jet, It’s the Commuter Helicopter 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z It includes case studies of people who underwent the gruesome procedures, such as one baron who lost the tip of his nose in a duelling accident. Whiff of suffering: medical volume reveals brutality of early nose jobs 2011-04-04T19:17:10Z Noboa, son of banana baron Alvaro Noboa, has proposed benefits for companies that hire young people and said he will promote private investment in electricity and oil and attract foreign capital. Ecuador polls predict close race for presidency 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Land barons seized control of the Tulare Lake Basin generations ago. Cool autumn storm to bring rain across California and season's first Sierra snow 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Boswell eventually married Ruth Chandler, daughter of The Times’ then-publisher, land baron Harry Chandler, and quietly carved out one of the richest cotton empires in the nation. How powerful land barons shaped the epic floods in California's heartland 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the tycoon “did more than any press baron in the last 100 years to promote the cause of the global free media that is indispensable for democracy and progress.” Hero or villain? Rupert Murdoch’s exit stirs strong feelings in Britain, where he upended the media 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The appointment of Lachlan Murdoch as chairman of Fox and News Corp solidifies his position as one of the most powerful media barons in the world. Five things to know about Lachlan Murdoch 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Justice, a billionaire coal baron, will need to overcome his own vulnerabilities and defeat Rep. Alex Mooney in the primary before duking it out with a Democrat in the general election. Manchin makes tortured calculations about risking a reelection run in Trump country 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z “Our union,” Fain has said, “isn’t going to stand by while they replace oil barons with battery barons.” Why the United Auto Workers union is poised to strike major US car makers this week 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z Given such sentiments and the region’s deference to its land barons, it’s difficult to say whether the supervisors’ decision to defy Boswell has any long-standing implications for water management in the Tulare Lake Basin. How powerful land barons shaped the epic floods in California's heartland 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z In Washington, the family-owned dailies continue to operate presses and Sound Publishing, a chain owned by a Canadian media baron, recently opened a new press in Lakewood. Saving the press in Seattle's Pioneer Square | Brier Dudley 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z A billionaire coal baron who in the past has self-funded his campaign, Mr. Justice says he has no intentions of doing so this time. Mission to oust Manchin is latest test case for GOP establishment vs. conservative flank 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Robert A. Iger, who leads Disney, publicly pushed back against the striking workers, and found himself jeered on picket lines as a robber baron. As Obscure as an Extra, She Has a Lead Role in Hollywood’s Labor Fight 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z A man convicted of trying to fix the trial of a drugs baron by tampering with a jury has been jailed for more than three years. Coventry 'winking witness' jailed over jury-nobbling plot 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Records and interviews show Thomas had another benefactor, oil baron Paul "Tony" Novelly, whose gifts to the justice have not previously been reported. Clarence Thomas’ 38 vacations: Other billionaires treated the Supreme Court justice to luxury travel 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z But I’m not an oil baron, industrialist or multinational corporation. I am privileged, indeed: I am a WA farmer | Op-Ed 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z A notorious strikebreaker noted for paying his workers abysmally low wages, the complicated robber baron also publicly supported progressive tax laws, including estate taxes. Renovations will bolster Andrew Carnegie's elegant Green Lake library 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Then, two titanic egos — Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis and railroad baron Henry Huntington — warred through their proxies in Congress, Huntington wanting the harbor in Santa Monica, and Otis in San Pedro. What if LAX were literally anywhere else? It could have been 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z His close friendship with longtime Socialist leader and former Premier Bettino Craxi was widely credited for helping him become a media baron. Silvio Berlusconi, scandal-scarred ex-Italian leader, dies at 86 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The Declaration was written in Latin and was sealed by eight earls and about 40 barons. Declaration of Arbroath: Scotland's most famous letter to go on display 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z That device gave citizens the right to adopt laws by a majority vote and circumvent legislatures that were often bought, sold and paid for by the robber barons of the 19th century's "Gilded Age." Clarence Thomas, Ken Paxton and Donald Trump: The corrupting influence of oligarchy 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z This was a well-to-do homestead, in which dwelt a baron named Fridgeir. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z The Osage were then enormously rich from oil on their land, and many white barons and gangsters alike sought to control and steal their money. In Cannes, Scorsese and DiCaprio turn spotlight toward Osage Nation 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Wearing a crisply ironed button-down shirt, sunglasses, baseball cap and boat shoes, the 89-year-old looked every bit a kind boat baron. Column: In Newport Beach, an old ferry company navigates choppy waters toward zero emissions 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The King and the Bishop of St Andrews also wrote to the Pope, but the barons' letter is the only surviving document. Declaration of Arbroath: Scotland's most famous letter to go on display 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Harry accuses the press barons of creating a "stalemate society, where they can enrage the public over the most mundane and petty things, to distract from the critical issues for our country and communities". Prince Harry: Fight not flight as he prepares to take stand 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The Washington Post once described him as “arguably the last great committee-chairman power baron to walk the halls of Congress.” Bud Shuster, congressional ‘king of asphalt,’ dies at 91 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z In the film, Robert De Niro plays a wealthy baron who’s particularly adept at plundering the Osage. In Cannes, Scorsese and DiCaprio turn spotlight toward Osage Nation 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z But the land barons who took over the region soon drained the lake and covered it in crops, helping make it one of the nation's most productive agricultural hubs. The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Demanding performance at all levels, he had an uncompromising drive that inspired comparisons to corporate barons like Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone. Edward H. Meyer, Who Created an Advertising Powerhouse, Dies at 96 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z A grand ballroom promises the kind of extravagance not seen since those robber barons’ heyday. Eight of the best new hotels for a US city break in 2023 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The last major renovations to the one-time lumber baron's mansion, built in 1868 on the south bank of the Ottawa River, were completed in 1951. Dead rodents litter PM's official home, but do Canadians care? 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z To the end, he was one of the most ruthless and polarizing media barons of his generation. Conservative media mogul Logan Roy dies at 84 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Boswell, an agricultural company founded by the famous land baron of the same name. The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z That property, owned by telecom baron Bruce McCaw, did not sell last year and is no longer listed. Peek inside one of the most expensive properties for sale in WA history 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The billionaire media baron said he plans to marry a fifth time. Rupert Murdoch, 92, decides to have another go at marriage 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z But even feigned ignorance isn't much of a cover for the coal baron. Manchin now says bank deregulation isn’t great despite “yes” vote on 2018 repeal 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z But all that it actually does is allow robber barons to swoop in and steal everything while leaving ordinary working people holding an empty bag. The problem with Silicon Valley isn’t "wokeness" — it's libertarianism 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z A duke is the highest ranking member of the English nobility, followed by marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons. Prince Edward Receives a New Title on His Birthday 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z “Whether it is executive bonuses or soaring profits, the money being made out of Putin’s illegal war should be helping struggling families not oil and gas barons.” BP CEO pay doubles to $12M as high energy costs surge profit 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z At the time, Gov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr. said the prosecutions showed the state was moving away from a time when it was “dominated by rural barons who operated under their own code.” With Murdaugh’s Conviction, a Century of Influence Unravels 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Her aspiring real-estate baron of a twin brother thinks “all the music stuff I’m doing is hilarious,” she says. Toxic sex, social anxiety, ’90s guitars: How L.A.’s Blondshell pulled off the rock debut of 2023 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z A century after oil barons scoured Texas for prime plots from which to extract black gold, another boom is underway: the plugging of thousands of abandoned oil wells. Pay and Plug: Federal Funds Spur Cleanup of Lost Oil Wells 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Our first star is Leland Stanford, railroad baron and university founder. Review | A new history unveils the exploitative origins of the tech giants 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Since the 1980s, the nation had gone from close to 50 Class 1 railroads down to just seven with the Wall Street monopoly power akin to the 19th-century robber barons. "Cover-up": Workers "know the truth" about the derailment disaster — why are they being ignored? 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z However, the coal baron who leads the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is far from alone in his defense of planet-heating and illness-inducing gas stoves. Joe Manchin teams up with Ted Cruz on "absurd" bill to protect toxic gas stoves 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The Green Lake, University and Columbia branches were each built more than 100 years ago with grants from steel baron and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Green Lake library in Seattle closing until 2024 for seismic retrofit 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Imperial County farm barons use more Colorado River water than the rest of California combined. Want to solve climate change? This California farm kingdom holds a key 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The rising inequality of the glittering city and the richest barons on earth being called out by the lone woman with the bullhorn down on the street. Seattle’s Kshama Sawant was a tale for our time, but the story fizzled 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Through their 21st century "precision scheduling railroading," these latter-day robber barons where putting workers' safety and the community's well-being at risk. "Cover-up": Workers "know the truth" about the derailment disaster — why are they being ignored? 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Equally thrilling for the peepers is watching the king of the moon atop a three-headed vulture and throwing a giant asparagus stalk at the baron as he runs on the lunar surface. ‘The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’ 4K Ultra HD movie review 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z But when Mr. Noren’s colleague, Joseph Polito, pulled the law’s legislative history, he discovered it was created specifically to protect critics of entertainment barons. Lawyers Barred by Madison Square Garden Found a Way Back In 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z A billionaire coal baron, Mr. Justice was reelected by a large margin in 2020. Joe Manchin’s GOP challenger Rep. Alex Mooney starts race for Senate seat with more than $1M 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Her strongest legacies are that she upset Seattle’s comfortable liberalism, and called out the rich barons. Seattle’s Kshama Sawant was a tale for our time, but the story fizzled 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Social media quickly erupted over Manchin's defense of gas cooking appliances, given his reputation as a coal baron. Coal baron Joe Manchin's defense of gas stoves flames out against “50 years of health studies” 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Cairns looks at the baron and his various incarnations in theater, film and animated projects even talking about a Nazi-funded movie back in 1943. ‘The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’ 4K Ultra HD movie review 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Montana politics were defined by the period in the early 20th century when mining barons ruled the state, controlling legislators and the local newspapers. How Montana Took a Hard Right Turn Toward Christian Nationalism 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z He’s got a campaign chest so full it could make a railroad baron blush, and he skated into a reelection so easy most of us barely noticed he was running. Newsom's inauguration was picture perfect, and that's a shame 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z As the revelations pile up, we learn that Bron is the film’s true villain: A rapacious, not-as-bright-as-he-seems robber baron whose unchecked ego and ambitions lead to his spectacular downfall. Janelle Monáe explains how 'Glass Onion' created twists hiding 'in plain sight' 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z “When the state was not shouldering its responsibility towards this region, the drug baron was taking care of us by buying the crop every year.” The world’s biggest hashish exporter is struggling to go legal 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z It explains how an 1888 agreement between wealthy land barons Henry Miller and James Haggin divided shares to the river, and how that agreement has been expanded and modified over the years. In Bakersfield, a lawsuit aims to turn a dry riverbed into a flowing river 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Union officials described how the nation's rail industry had gone from close to 50 Class 1 railroads in the 1980s down to just seven with the monopoly power associated with the 19th-century robber barons. At labor rally in D.C., rail workers and progressive allies vow to push Biden on sick days 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z But as people debated complex, novel issues of free speech and online censorship, the move also underscored the role of a simpler, more enduring element of American life: the press baron. In Suspending Journalists on Twitter, Musk Flexes His Media Muscle 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Prentice, a lawyer and land baron, lived in a 16-room mansion near what is now the zoo with monkeys and a gibbon, whose mischief caused multiple housekeepers to quit, according to a 2009 Times article. The Santa Ana Zoo has a monkey problem: Not enough of them 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “The cannabis economy by definition is based on exploitation and domination of the drug barons and also based on strong individual competition between producers,” said Mouna. The world’s biggest hashish exporter is struggling to go legal 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z As the heir to a $250 million chunk of the estate of her great-grandfather, James Campbell, a sugar baron, she lived a life of luxury fit for a queen. Abigail Kawananakoa, 96, Dies; Claimed to Be Last Hawaiian Princess 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The accusations show the reach and influence the young crypto baron amassed in just a few years. U.S. charges FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with criminal fraud 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z In a string of posts on Friday, Mr. Musk — who, like any proud press baron, keeps a close watch on his platform — cracked jokes, defended his positions, and needled his critics. In Suspending Journalists on Twitter, Musk Flexes His Media Muscle 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The railroad barons refuse to permit sick days because they have stripped the railroads down to skeleton crews in a process known as precision scheduled railroading, or PSR. Rail strike bill: Both sides do it — wage relentless war against the working class, that is 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z America's 21st century railroad robber barons were off the hook for sick days thanks to their bipartisan lock on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Biden’s Holiday Express delivers for 21st-century robber barons at rail workers’ expense 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The truth is, the media has ceded its public power to politicians and is now being carved up by the robber barons they also caved into long ago. A nation of attention junkies: Trump and Elon are the perfect symbols of America's predicament 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z In the 19th Century, one of the great textile barons, Titus Salt, built homes and schools for the workers who toiled in his Yorkshire mills. Jeff Bezos: Does US-style philanthropy exist in UK? 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z The chilly shift in tone among the media baron's formerly Trump-friendly outlets has been noticeable since Republicans fizzled out in last week's midterm elections. Trump not first politician to be ditched by Rupert Murdoch 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Since Tuesday’s election, The Wall Street Journal editorial page and The New York Post — owned by the conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch — called for Mr. Trump to be tossed aside. Trump Angst Wracks Republicans (Again) as 2024 Announcement Looms 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Most of recorded history tells the story of kings, popes, priests, lords and barons who ruled through violence and imposed themselves on their people rather than the people selecting them. Republicans pointed a weapon at the heart of our democracy — in 1964. We're feeling it now 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Barnard, however, was a squatter on a rancho owned by oil baron Thomas Scott, whose land agent Thomas Bard disliked the name and sought to build a wharf on Point Hueneme. Voters in this coastal Ventura County city will decide: Do we call ourselves 'Port' or 'Beach'? 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Like Bezos and others, the industrial barons of Victorian England accumulated vast private fortunes largely untroubled by taxes, dazzling everybody with their good works. Jeff Bezos: Does US-style philanthropy exist in UK? 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z But as Trump is no doubt aware, the media baron's idea of a personal connection is just as transactional as his own is often said to be. Trump not first politician to be ditched by Rupert Murdoch 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z In a way, Musk reminds me of an old fashioned media baron, using his wealth and platform to stir up controversy, draw attention to his product and make more money. Time for press to reassess Twitter relationship 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The media czars of today are nothing more than the robber barons of old. Are we living in dystopia? Not even close — but let's learn from history this time 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The 1968 discovery of oil in Alaska activated a dream among oil barons to turn Washington state into a “supertanker” port for transporting oil to the Midwest. Enforce Sen. Magnuson’s ‘little amendment’ to protect Salish Sea 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Her father was a prominent architect for the rich, who designed the tony enclave of Tuxedo Park, New York, and her mother was the daughter of a coal baron. Emily Post’s etiquette tome overhauled for 21st century 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The bashing of Donald Trump by Rupert Murdoch's US newspapers looks like a familiar pattern of the Australian-born media baron turning on political leaders who are no longer useful to him. Trump not first politician to be ditched by Rupert Murdoch 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Accounts of the stubborn baron’s “hunger strike” — featuring photos of his 14-year-old daughter — went around the world. The mysterious patient in room 23: The hermit baroness 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z This explosive expansion encouraged oil barons, real estate tycoons, Chamber of Commerce executives and The Times to push for more. L.A.’s love of sprawl made it America's most overcrowded place. Poor people pay a deadly price 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The city is also full of concert halls, parks, pools and other public amenities that might not exist but for the barons. In Scotland, a city’s world-class industrial past informs its present 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Once listed by the United States as one of the world’s most wanted narcotics dealers, Mr. Noorzai was a prominent drug baron in Kandahar Province for decades. U.S. Hostage Exchanged for Afghan Drug Lord in Prisoner Swap 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z "The Rupert Murdoch I knew was gentlemanly, courtly," says Padden, who scheduled the media baron's meetings on Capitol Hill as he built up his television holdings in the mid-1990s. Trump not first politician to be ditched by Rupert Murdoch 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Cholly Knickerbocker noted that the “erudite baron,” his baroness and “their lovely daughter Brigit” — a common misspelling that persisted in the press — “entertained a distinguished group of ambassadors, ministers and socialites-without-portfolio.” The mysterious patient in room 23: The hermit baroness 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Gould died of tuberculosis at age 56 without having used some of his fortune to establish an atoning institution, such as the universities founded by his fellow robber barons Leland Stanford and Vanderbilt. Review | The life of Jay Gould, America’s most cunning Wall Street wizard 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “That’s a hell of a note for the son of a bathroom baron.” Herbert Kohler, Plumbing Mogul Who Created a Golf Mecca, Dies at 83 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Despite many reports of early peccadilloes on Philip’s part — hidden from public view with the help of cooperative newspaper barons — their bonds endured, a throwback to earlier decades of more durable relationships. Queen Elizabeth II Dies at 96; Was World’s Longest-Reigning Monarch 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Maxwell, the daughter of late British press baron Robert Maxwell, is serving her sentence in a Tallahassee, Florida, prison, and is appealing her conviction. Ghislaine Maxwell sued by her lawyers over unpaid fees 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Similarly, the quantity of cattle and the amount of grazing land meant that cowboys and would-be cattle barons had ample room to spread out. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Shore Acres State Park stewards the legacy of Louis J. Simpson, the timber baron son of a shipping magnate. Stellar design, hospitality elevate this RV park on Oregon’s southern coast 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z These are the oil barons and railroad tycoons of our time. Q&A: U.S. Rep. David Cicilline on why Congress must help save local news 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z If it opposes new restrictions, the Conservatives would argue that Labour is on the side of "militant trade union barons", not "ordinary people" who suffer disruption. Are we set for a general strike? 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Reagan's actions while in office enabled the re-emergence of robber barons, drooling with a lustful and narcissistic longing for every dollar they could make at the expense of everyone else. With 100 days to go, Republicans are flatlining — yet somehow still poised to win 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Corrupt state and local governments favored White people in land disputes, and mining companies and cattle barons discriminated against them, as with the Chinese workers, in terms of pay and working conditions. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z But then voters would find out he’s a coal baron, a one-hit wonder who is interested only in himself. Opinion | Manchin’s interests run deep 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z "During the fierce global backlash, the data shows how Uber tried to shore up support by discreetly courting prime ministers, presidents, billionaires, oligarchs and media barons." Leaked files indicate Uber exploited violence against drivers 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z According to The Guardian, the leak also “shows how Uber tried to shore up support by discreetly courting prime ministers, presidents, billionaires, oligarchs and media barons.” Uber leaks reveal how it spread "fucking illegal" ride-sharing globally 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z She later became a baroness after marrying one of the wealthiest men in Europe, Jean Empain of Belgium; when he died of cancer in 1946, she married his first cousin, who was also a baron. Betty Rowland, the last grande dame of burlesque, dies at 106 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, “captains of industry” are noted for contributions that fundamentally changed and typically improved the nation, whereas “robber barons” can seldom point to such concrete contributions. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The night our world changed, I was in a copper baron’s palatial Adirondack home, writing about the history of the poorhouse. His PTSD, and My Struggle to Live With It 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has responded by condemning "union barons" and seeking to make it easier for companies to hire agency workers. 'Backfiring' UK response to strikes must change, union chief urges 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern oil barons and billionaire Chinese entrepreneurs have been on a spending spree on London real estate over the past three decades, snapping up trophy homes and high-end commercial property. Boost for luxury London property prices as Russians locked in 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The infamous climax of that story recapitulated the depraved ambitions of a would-be rubber baron who conscripts Indigenous villagers to drag a ship through a steep jungle denuded for that purpose. Review | Werner Herzog’s first novel revisits fanaticism and human folly 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Some of these new millionaires were known in their day as robber barons, a negative term that connoted the belief that they exploited workers and bent laws to succeed. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z A descendant of a California land baron is unhappy about San Francisco’s condition. Column: The Getty oil fortune, a family scandal and an alleged multimillion-dollar tax scam 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z “We need the union barons to sit down with Network Rail and the train companies and get on with it,” the prime minister said. U.K. Train Strike Brings Transit Chaos 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z The prime minister has urged "union barons to sit down with Network Rail and the train companies". Johnson on train strikes: 'We must stay the course' 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Reuters senior reporter David K. Randall resurrects the world of early 20th-century robber barons and western adventurers in his new book, "The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World." The real world behind "Jurassic World": How the story of dinosaurs reflects the story of humans 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Midwest farmers, angry at large railroad owners for their exploitative business practices, came to refer to them as “robber barons,” as their business dealings were frequently shady and exploitative. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Lawyers for Maxwell have maintained that their client, the daughter of late British media baron Robert Maxwell, was being scapegoated because Epstein was dead. Ghislaine Maxwell says she should get less than 20-year sentence for sex abuse conviction 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z “I sometimes wondered if I was painting with too glossy a brush,” Addison admitted when considering his subjects — the swashbuckling litigator Mike Kaeske, the saintly plaintiff Joyce Messick, the evil, conniving hog barons. How a rural victory over pig poop struck a blow against polluters everywhere 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s not a guarantee — if the third wild card had been in place last year, 90 wins still wouldn’t have been enough for Seattle to surpass any of the AL East’s four-deep power barons. Things are finally looking up for the Mariners, but here’s why they were never out of the playoff chase 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Reuters senior reporter David K. Randall resurrects the world of early 20th-century robber barons and western adventurers in his new book, "The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World." The real world behind "Jurassic World": How the story of dinosaurs reflects the story of humans 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Jay Gould was perhaps the first prominent railroad magnate to be tarred with the “robber baron” brush. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Elisabeth Murdoch, the daughter of media baron Rupert Murdoch and founder of two successful independent TV production companies, was given a CBE for her work with Arts Council England. Actor Damian Lewis and former Northern Ireland leader honoured by Queen Elizabeth 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The French king had given the baron a second mission: to ensure the former colony took out a loan from young French banks to make the payments. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Jay Gould, a robber baron of the late 19th century who helped build the U.S. railroad network system, funded deals partly with wealth accumulated through his Wall Street gambles. Even Among Corporate Raiders, Elon Musk Is a Pirate 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z The wife of railroad baron Leland Stanford, Jane was rich, duplicitous and convinced that God was whispering in her ear. 'Who Killed Jane Stanford?' Solving the cold case of a California founder's murder 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Which of the following “robber barons” was notable for the exploitative way he made his fortune in railroads? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Stonecipher was the first in a line of future Boeing CEOs influenced by General Electric’s Jack Welch, one of the most poisonous individuals in American business since the robber barons. In the other Washington, Boeing’s future is far from clear 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z In his own handwritten account, the baron said he had been instructed to launch military operations that “can no longer be stopped.” The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Colombia has extradited the drug baron leader of the country's biggest crime gang to the US, Colombia's president has announced. Otoniel: Colombia drug kingpin extradited to US 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z I wonder if he is familiar with Oil!, a book about how oil barons are bad and socialism is good. Crypto is winning, and Bitcoin diehards are furious about it 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z What differentiated a “robber baron” from other “captains of industry” in late nineteenth-century America? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The big question is whether Musk can run Twitter as a public trust, rather than as a robber baron's narcissistic indulgence. Now Elon Musk has to choose between good and evil — and maybe he'll surprise us 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “I am not a negotiator,” he told Haiti’s president, Jean-Pierre Boyer, according to the baron’s account, which was published in France this year. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z We may not want these digital media barons to have so much power, but the reality is that they do. Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Will Face Reality of His Free-Speech Talk 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z But anything that looks too much like a handout from the powerful risks seeming like the stuff of robber barons and back-alley politics. The Great Chicago Gas Giveaway and the Return of Stunt Philanthropy 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z These battle lines were drawn at the dawn of the industrial revolution against the robber barons of the Gilded Age. Starbucks: Front-line workers 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “He would be a throwback to the ‘Citizen Kane’ days of press barons using their newspapers to advance their favorite causes,” Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan’s business school, told me. Elon Musk Is a Digital Citizen Kane 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The French demand was “excessive” and beyond “all our calculations,” Boyer said, according to the baron’s account. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Britain has long had a reputation for plaintiff-friendly libel laws, and despite reform efforts in the past decade, the country has remained an accommodating home away from home for Russia’s robber barons. Do Russian Oligarchs Have a Secret Weapon in London’s Libel Lawyers? 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The quarrel over western lands was not only a debate over the equality of the states within the Union, but also a scramble among rival sets of creditors, land barons, and settler-soldiers. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Well, we are in a revitalized Gilded Age with just as lethal and corrupt corporate barons as yesteryear. Starbucks: Front-line workers 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z She falsely claimed to be the daughter of a diplomat or an oil baron. Fake heiress Anna Sorokin makes new bid to fight deportation 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z So the baron brought three Haitian diplomats with him back to France. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z You know the rest: What the West foisted on Russia was the same feral brand of 19th-century capitalism that spawned Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt and the rest of America's "robber barons." Mikhail Gorbachev changed history — and then the West paved the way for Putin 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z By the end of the seventeenth century, a couple of hundred sugar barons owned most of Barbados, each operating one or more plantations of about 200 acres and about the same number of African slaves. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Weary of John’s military campaigns and heavy taxes, the barons who prompted the Magna Carta were seeking protection against heavy-handed and arbitrary acts by the king. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Those named in the initial rounds fell into the realm of usual suspects, including Gennady Timchenko, an oil baron and Putin ally who has been sanctioned by the United States since 2014. Chelsea football owner Roman Abramovich and the awkwardness of Russia sanctions 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z And it became a prototype for controlling colonies after their independence, fulfilling the vision of the baron, who later became France’s minister of the navy and colonies. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z “But we don’t want to go the way of the lumber barons who said they saw a century’s worth of timber in Michigan and wiped it out in 10 years.” Even in water-rich Michigan, no guarantee of enough for all 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil baron once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, ran afoul of Putin when he more fully embraced the free market and began criticizing the vestiges of Soviet central planning. US sanctions on Russian oligarchs miss richest of rich 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Trump, he said, was “moving more toward being the entertainment baron, so to speak.” Trump’s Truth Social app can’t beat Twitter, but it doesn’t have to 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Which is why, like the Akronite rubber barons before him who built Firestone Park and Goodyear Heights — neighborhoods for their workers that doubled as centers of power — he is basically building an “I Promise” neighborhood. Column: I promise, this is the real story of how LeBron James is saving Akron 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Frank himself becomes a baron and lives in a castle. Review: A Nobel Prize winner's massive historical epic is an irreverent epiphany 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z It started with Fellowes, who, while doing research for “Downton,” took an intellectual detour into new moneyed New York and become fascinated with the robber barons of the era. Because of Black women, the period drama ‘The Gilded Age’ has a Black story line done right 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z She settled in what then was Yugoslavia, where she became a secretary to a Czech lumber baron, Odo Bakovsky. Sergei Tolstoy, ‘bohemian’ descendant of Leo Tolstoy, dies at 99 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z It was later revealed that Fall also had leased two California naval oil reserve fields to the oil baron Edward Doheny. A century before Jan. 6, bombshell hearings on another assault on democracy 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z While working as a foreign correspondent for News Corp. in the U.S. in the late 1970s, Allan became acquainted with the media baron himself. Former New York Post digital editor sues Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The clause describes a process of electing representative barons who had the power to seize property in order to redress grievances. Anti-vax protests: ‘Sovereign citizens’ fight UK Covid vaccine rollout 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z There was also scant mention of Ms. Maxwell’s background, except a reference to the 1991 death of her father, the British media baron Robert Maxwell. Maxwell Prosecutors Won Their Case but Shed Little New Light on Epstein 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z If it helps, the cover of the New York Post — run by Rupert Murdoch, a rival of Maxwell’s late media baron father — the day after the verdict: “GHILTY!” What’s next for Ghislaine Maxwell after guilty verdict? 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The favorite daughter of late press baron Robert Maxwell has been locked up since her July 2019 arrest at the dreaded Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Ghislaine Maxwell verdict: What's next for Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking pal? 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Australia’s laws were developed in part from pressure by billionaire iron ore baron Andrew Forrest and his Minderoo Foundation’s Walk Free initiative. Microsoft, Apple suppliers exposed by anti-slavery law 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Maxwell, the daughter of British press baron Robert Maxwell, knew nothing of Epstein's depraved appetite for young girls, the attorney said. Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Jurors seek accusers' testimony as deliberations begin 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Describing it, he invoked the mustachioed robber baron: “It was made in the first decade of this century for J.P. Morgan.” J.P. Morgan's million-dollar pocket watch vanished. The hunt for it became an obsession 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Maxwell, a daughter of late British media baron Robert Maxwell, has pleaded not guilty. Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial enters second week after accuser's testimony 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Those impatient to learn what awaits House Roy in “Succession” can tide themselves over in the meantime with “Dune,” with its futuristic clash between the spice barons of House Atreides and House Harkonnen. Review: Lady Gaga brings down the 'House of Gucci' in Ridley Scott's lavish couture-clash drama 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z India is the world’s largest consumer of sugar, making it big business for the so-called barons who dominate the trade. No way out: The dangerous fields of India's impoverished sugar-cane cutters 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z On Bradford’s mostly empty Main Street, Art Deco, Italianate and Neo-Classical buildings loom as a reminder of an earlier era when the city was home to wealthy oil barons and hungry entrepreneurs. ‘It’s a walkout!’ “He is doubling up as a corporate baron while he’s also the general commander of the army and now the de facto head of state,” Mr. Baldo said. ‘They Lied.’ Inside the Frantic Days Leading to Sudan’s Coup 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z They might just be the robber barons of a new gilded age. Who, me? 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Advocates for tech regulation say legislation is needed because laws written in the era of railroads and oil barons are not equipped to address the unique ways that Silicon Valley can harm competition and consumers. Senators aim to block tech giants from prioritizing their own products over rivals’ 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The sugar barons’ use of third-party contractors to hire cane cutters creates the illusion of a firewall between them and the miserable working conditions they impose on migrant laborers, activists say. No way out: The dangerous fields of India's impoverished sugar-cane cutters 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Unlike simple email-based scams of the past purporting to be from princes or oil barons seeking your help to shift their millions, the modern bank scam can be sophisticated, multi-phased and extremely convincing. Welcome to Britain, the bank scam capital of the world 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z However, the barons of the day wouldn’t accept a female sovereign, clearing the way for Stephen of Blois, Henry I’s nephew, to take the throne. Author Charles Spencer sees a distant mirror in forgotten medieval shipwreck 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Many historians suspect the baron was the letters’ censor, perhaps to preserve his family’s reputation among rumors that the Swedish count and the French queen had been secret lovers. Marie Antoinette’s Letters to Her Dear Swedish Count, Now Uncensored 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z People were becoming digital land barons and selling virtual items in Second Life nearly two decades ago. What is the metaverse, and do I have to care? 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Due to its pressure, party barons have ruled that members of the formal factions can vote as they wish on Wednesday. Junior Japanese lawmakers emerge as force in wide-open PM race 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Roberts cited a quote from Jay Gould, the Gilded Age railroad baron: “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” A Century Ago, Miners Fought in a Bloody Uprising. Few Know About It Today. 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z In this new Gilded Age, 21st-century robber barons are blasting themselves into space, profiteering from the pandemic, avoiding most or all taxation and expanding their wealth and income at heretofore unfathomable rates. As the right ramps up the cruelty and dread, it's time to stay clear-headed — and fight back 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z In the early days of the American Football League, oil baron H.L. LOVERRO: Nationals’ reboot likely to test owners’ commitment to winning 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z How did my dog — a 7-year-old Labrador retriever — find himself among the world’s space barons? Perspective | In space, no one can hear you bark: We’re teaching our dog about going into orbit 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z There you have it: The barons are all released from the releases, releasing them from anything for which they could ever need to be released. Perspective | Olympic leaders are making sure the Tokyo Games are safe — from liability 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z In the initial House of Lords debate, Daniel Moylan, a baron, voiced his fears: “The logical consequence is that we are driven in the direction of veganism and the consumption solely of non-sentient plants.” Lobsters’ feelings loom large as British Parliament debates animal welfare bill 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Morgan, the banker and robber baron, who started buying tourmaline and other jewels through Kunz. Why Geology Is Our Destiny 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Steel, which in turn begat “Fordism” and the Model T. Levy’s portraits of the industrial barons are artfully sketched, admiring but not fawning, full of insights and details about business and finance. Review | From commerce to chaos: An economic history of the United States 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z The archetypal robber barons, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, both argued that the "survival of the fittest" principle justified their cutthroat tactics. It’s time to consign the “selfish gene” to the history books 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Dave Schilling pays homage to the barons of bootleg sports merch, who for years have been reminding us who truly owns culture. Not many take the time to recognize the beauty of L.A. Consider this a starting point 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Its lofty isolation inspired Eddy to build the counterweight cable-car system that sent two little wooden cars up and down “like a robber baron’s extravagant dumbwaiter,” wrote Jim Dawson in his book about Angels Flight. You know Angels Flight. But what about L.A.’s other funicular railways? 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Before 1750, it didn’t matter whether you were a baron or a haberdasher or a hunter-gatherer: Your life expectancy at birth was going to be in the 30s. How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Klobuchar also explores characters famous in their time but unknown today, such as 19th-century Minnesota railroad baron James J. Hill, who controlled the iron mines in which Klobuchar’s grandfather Mike worked. Review | How the Senate’s antitrust chair would take on monopolies 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z No, they sleep soundly in the comfort of a steady job doing the coal barons' bidding. We still blow up mountains to mine coal: Time to end the war on Appalachia 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Burlington rose as a railroad and manufacturing center, and the stone mansions of its 19th-century barons still stand on a bluff above the river. Why Iowa Has Become Such a Heartbreaker for Democrats 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z “The idea was not so much to centralize power as to remove or reduce the power of these committee barons,” he said. Analysis | A scholar-politician looks at Congress and the politics of the post-Trump era 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Viewers are taken back to an 1870’s New Mexico Territory and enter the realm of tyrannical cattle baron and widower T.C. Blu-ray movie reviews: ‘The Furies’ and ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Hawley claimed that the MLB and other corporations that have criticized voter restrictions in Georgia and other states are doing "exactly what the railroad barons tried to do a century ago." Cruz, Hawley want to “break up” MLB as punishment for protesting Georgia voting restrictions 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z A cattle baron with a long-range rifle hunts the outlaw who has kidnapped his wife. Movies on TV this week 'Pulp Fiction' on BBC America and IFC 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join Fox News Media as a contributor, the news network controlled by media baron Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday. Former Secretary of State Pompeo to join Fox News Media 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Lick, who died in 1876, was a wealthy land baron and patron of the sciences. San Francisco board halts renaming of public schools after months of furor and debate 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Among other lies, she claimed her father — a former trucker who runs a heating-and-cooling business — was a diplomat or an oil baron. Fake German heiress taken into US custody, faces deportation 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z But a downturn in cotton and sugar prices in the early 1800s drove the farms into insolvency — and the plantation barons did something unexpected. In Brazil, a story of slavery — and outer space 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z If not, coal barons, like Justice, would pay less. Editorial Roundup: West Virginia 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Some of the tech barons who benefited most are in Seattle's back yard. Coronavirus daily news updates, March 15: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the world 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z And they are all tech barons, underscoring the power of the industry in the U.S. economy. The pandemic’s billionaire boom 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Maybe our coal baron governor did so intentionally. Editorial Roundup: West Virginia 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z |
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