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Duff
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Cornell Said Chosen for NYC Engineering Campus
Elihu Yale was a Governor of the British East India Company, which made the King rich by peddling drugs to the Chinese, among other thing.
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gcampbell
on Dec 19, 2011
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I thought the preferred pejorative for Leland Stanford was "robber baron".
Duff
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Or "Captain of Industry" in friendlier contexts.
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