Sentences with phrase «robber barons of»

I envisioned games and gambling among friends, or an after - hours parlor filled with the power players and robber barons of a bygone era.

Thanks WUWT and all of the above for the wonderful alternatives to the the media - embargoed truth that the hateful and hostile robber barons of the climat - modelling world are selling.

Knoedler would become a leading supplier of Old Master paintings to the robber barons of the Gilded Age, counting among its clients Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick.

The image is self - explanatory and seems like a 1930s book cover by C.S. Lewis or some other writer spilling ink on the robber barons of early America.

Amazon's a bit like the late nineteenth - century robber barons of steel, rail and oil.

Here is a short list of changes that the modern - day robber barons of Big Business have helped bring about:

He thunders on about them like a robber baron of yore.

It's not the meeting in and of itself that's the robber baron of the person's precious time and energy.

Not exact matches

Jay Gould, American railroad executive, financier, and speculator, an important railroad developer who was one of the most unscrupulous «robber barons» of 19th - century American capitalism.

The «Robber Barons» were no robbers and their greed was exaggerated, natural right - grounded classic liberals rejected Social Darwinism, and men like Justice Peckham who «discovered» and defended the liberty of contract were good men attuned to what might plausibly be derived from a natural development of American jurisprudence.

That system seemed to undercut the democratic gains that were being made in law, politics, education «and family life; it tended rather toward a new feudalism, dominated by robber barons and served by a new class of.

The «robber barons,» as the great lawless industrialists and financiers were later called, moved toward even greater control over large segments of American economic life.

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.

They should be held in contempt with the likes of Halliburton, Goldman Sacs and all the other corporate rapists that plunder and destroy all that is good for the gratification and greed of a small select group of Robber Barons.

Henry F. May has called the period from 1861 to 1876 «The Summit of Complacency,» and has shown how the majority of leading Protestant clergymen in the North supported the optimism of the «gilded age» while overlooking the easy morality or amorality of the «robber barons.»

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!»

We have enough of hard and ruthless people in business life, of domineering professionals, of robber barons in politics.

I do realize that things can and do happen in the US with formula manufacturing that are not good, but comparing it to China, which is basically the equivalent of robber baron capitalism like we had here a hundred years ago is a bit of a stretch.

Now, with the so - called Avengers, the latest mutation of militants, they are being raped by home - grown robber barons, who kill, rob and plunder — but blame outsiders for their crime.

Forget Mexico: The community in peril is now an American frontier town called Rose Creek, threatened not by bandits but Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the sort of robber baron who introduces himself by declaring, «This country has long equated democracy with capitalism, capitalism with God,» before an audience of (presumably confused) townspeople.

Phantom Thread comes a decade after the fruitful collaboration of Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day - Lewis in the robber - baron epic There Will Be Blood, adapted from Oil!

It's a reach at best shown as we are the anarchy that reigned then and for decades to come with Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall running the city as a fiefdom for the robber barons at the top of New York society.

The lead «seven» have great chemistry, and Peter Sarsgaard is effective as the greedy robber baron looking to plunder a small town of its wealth.

There's no moment of moral choice here: The leader of the seven (Denzel Washington) is now a U.S. Marshal with a score to settle with the villain (Peter Sarsgaard), the sort of robber baron who walks into a room with a prepared monologue about capitalism, complete with visual aid.

Also in the recent tradition of Disney animation, the picture appears to have no clue as to why it is that its once robber - baron grip on the field has slipped to the point that the Magic Kingdom is no better than mechanized schlock - houses like DreamWorks and Blue Sky Studios.

What's the outcome of the whole decade impacted by robber barons?»

It is time to fight the 21st century robber - barons and cleanse our government of grifters and sycophants.

At the time of the first generations of so - called «Robber Barons,» Chicago wealthiest owners invented the Civic Committee.

It would help Rolls - Royce lose its perceived status as the vehicle of choice for the world's robber barons and, instead, to be appreciated as a work of art that's handcrafted, designed, and built by people like you and me.

If you don't read this footnote, adequately absorb its message, and send me email to the effect of «the iPhone sux because Apple and AT&T are monopolistic robber barons», I reserve the right to punch you in the face while yelling I WAS N'T JUST TALKING ABOUT THE IPHONE YOU JACKASS.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Octopus are two novels that were written in 1900 and 1901 respectively about the infamous robber barons and the railroad monopoly, and in this time we saw political and social activism sprout up around these books.

These are the Social Darwinists (sometimes called Social Positivists) whose thinking stood behind the great economic expansion, was challenged by a global recession, and ultimately fell out of favor in the United States when the princely accumulation of wealth and power by a generation of Robber Barons was recognized as jarringly undemocratic.

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.

In the bad old days of robber baron capitalism, most workers depended on a big well - capitalized employer to provide the so - called «means of production.»

68 % of Home Buyers Prefer Local Banks Over the Majors At a time when large banks are viewed as unscrupulous robber barons, the following survey might not be much of a surprise.

Unlike Cleveland, which is a robber - baron town, Cincinnati is a town of old money.

Just as obviously, it has a history and style in common with the abode of that other robber baron, Henry Clay Frick.

Whore of Babylon & Robber Barons depicts the Book of Revelations beast composed of notorious 19th Century American merchants atop a sea of 1960s political conventioneers.

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.

In one particularly staggering section, «Visions and Myths of a Nation,» a gallery devoted to the 19th century features an elaborate gilded mantelpiece by the Herter Brothers, the robber barons» interior decorators of choice, on the same wall as an 1801 silver peace medal by John Matthias Reich bearing the word «friendship.»

He became one of the wealthiest men in New York, but unlike his robber - baron contemporaries, Cooper believed that wealth was a public trust.

(Later, an Iraqi gallery owner laid out her own spectrum of dubious wealth: arms, drugs, and blood diamonds were very bad; pharmaceuticals were on the fence; tax evasion and corruption through contracting and procurement were unremarkable; robber barons and industry titans were business as it's always been.)

Instead of focusing on developing solutions the robber barons continue to pull the wool over the eyes of the masses spreading doubt just like the cigarette makers spread doubt about the deadly health affects of smoking cigarettes.

Here's one word he certainly did know: pollution Here's another: conservation And our modern Robber Barons are more concerned with maintaining their profits than with the survival of our civilization, and perhaps our species.

Our «free» communication is not free; for example the New York Times holds on to its independence but is hardly free of its major financiers, who are the ever - growing wealth / fossil fuel antiregulation robber baron freedom sector dominated by ever fewer people.

The EPA's global energy of the future train has left the station filled with robber barons and bureaucrats.

Klein instead prefers the story that there is sufficient wealth, but that evil robber barons keep it from those who need it — a childish «zero sum game» view of wealth and inequality.

Mark my words, after AIG and TARP folks are sick of «enlightened self interests» making policies that take money out of their pockets, and with Goldman Sachs [earth2tech.com] setting themselves up to make so much money off the «carbon credits» scam that robber barons would blush,

Some Chinese may look to the U.S. as a beacon of car - endowed freedom, but to compare China's enthusiasm for development to that of the United States during the heady days of robber - baron capitalism (as we often do) doesn't fully do justice to the speed — and the consequent growing pains — of economic, industrial, and ecological change here.

@Jim Rose Oh for goodness sake Jim Rose — you do have your charicature of the left nicely boxed in your mind do nt you with the following comment... «The left talks of class war, robber barons, history is the history of the class war, the bosses and the workers, class loyalty, class traitors, class consciousness, imperialism, capitalist running dogs, deviationists but to name but a few.