Sentences with phrase «industrialist charles»

Pratt Institute was founded in 1887 by American industrialist Charles Pratt, a successful businessman who made his fortune in oil.

Treasures of New York goes inside the prestigious college to discover its vibrant Brooklyn history through the eyes of the two men who «built» it; industrialist Charles Pratt, who founded the school in 1887, and Dr. Thomas F. Schutte, who has been articulating Pratt's vision since he became the school's President in 1993.

Speaking on Saturday night at a private donor retreat here hosted by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn opposed the idea.

Field organizing has been a top priority this year of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and other wealthy donors.

As Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin battled last month to keep his job, his fate hinged in part on a once - obscure advocacy group backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.

Americans for Prosperity, the advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, is emerging as the most powerful ally of the Republican Party ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, bombarding Senate Democrats with early air attacks that could help the GOP retake the Senate.

Now the Washington Post is reporting that the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and their coterie of millionaire and billionaire funders are getting involved, promising a David and Goliath type battle over the future of America's public schools.

«State governments are starting to wake up,» Christine Harbin Hanson, a spokeswoman for Americans for Prosperity, the advocacy group backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, said in an email.

After Media Matters found that at least 15 Fox News hosts and contributors had campaigned with political organizations backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, a petition from CREDO Action urged the network to disclose the conflict of interest on the air.

«Disappointing» was the adjective used in a statement from Americans for Prosperity, a group backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, while «counterproductive» appeared in a statement from Freedom Partners, another Koch - affiliated group.

Not exact matches

The White House seems to be ignoring pleas from many Republican politicians and industrialists (such as Charles Koch) to avoid broad tariffs, which seem likely to spark an international trade war.

The first - term Alaska Democrat, who faces a challenging re-election this November, has been targeted in two TV commercials put up by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group backed by the deep pockets of the billionaire industrialist brothers, David and Charles Koch.

Charles G. Koch, the billionaire industrialist, suggested he's open to supporting Hillary Clinton for president and said it was possible she would make a better president than her Republican rivals.

And she knocked Cuomo for the donations he's received from the wealthy, including Charles and David Koch, wealthy industrialists who have become boogeymen for the left.

But Trump's incendiary statements and inconsistent policy stances have dismayed Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialist who leads the network and who has said he is unlikely to support the real estate mogul.

Many of these were set up through private funds — e.g., by the financier Charles Yerkes, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

February 28, 2013 • Conservative groups backed by wealthy industrialists David and Charles Koch spent millions but fared badly in the 2012 elections.

Also fueling this viewpoint are advocacy groups funded by David and Charles Koch, billionaire industrialists who have funded many conservative causes and political candidates.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Founded in 1895 by the Pittsburgh - based industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the museum has a permanent collection of roughly 35,000 works, featuring European and American paintings, drawings, prints (notably Japanese prints), sculpture, decorative art, architecture, photography (notably the archive of African - American photographer Charles «Teenie» Harris) and installations.

As DeSmogBlog has revealed, Charles Koch is a long - standing member of the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS)-- a global group of industrialists, academics and economists who share the «neoliberal» ideology of limiting government control.

Prince Charles has called them the «biggest environmental disaster of all time,» while agriculture industrialists like Monsanto swear they're safe for human consumption and a boon for the environment.

Perhaps those sisters and brothers are just the unfortunate casualties in the CCPA's bigger war: smearing Big Oil as rapacious industrialists right out of a Charles Dickens novel.

Industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch funded the Tea Party and its protege, House speaker Paul Ryan.