Sentences with phrase «robber baron founded»
In due course, a certain robber baron founded the Morgan Library.
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But concurrently in nuce and eventually massively, centrist, elitist, great - power competitors competitiors to people - power arose and flourished in various forms: robber - baron enterprises grew into modern corporations, a federal government that had discovered how to fight a civil war soon found new fields for the exercise of authority and control Concentrations of power in the political and economic spheres began to deprive the people of genuine political participation while keeping them in the illusion that they still possessed it.
If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»
BTW... Jesus was against usury fees (interest on loans) and thus he would find Blankfein and is robber baron friends to be evil.
Read a bit of history, and you'll find that's precisely what the late nineteenth century robber barons in oil, steel and rail did.
Rather than updating the narratives of art's conceptual, formal, and material interests to reflect today's developments, the largest and most visible museums in the United States are increasingly being dragged back toward the values of the robber barons who founded them.