A more innocent reason for the chat was that Cragnotti, a fruit magnate, was trying to enlist Erikkson as the European face of Del Monte. |
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Hugh Allan, the railroad magnate, would steer Scottish immigrants there until they settled in elsewhere. |
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Andrew Carnegie was a steel magnate who gave a great deal of money away in his later years to libraries and educational causes. |
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The audience was an array of stars, rowdy fans and industry bigwigs, including Virgin magnate Richard Branson. |
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This fall he, backed by the Greek shipping magnate, is scheduled to introduce a new Washington biweekly called The American Conservative. |
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Hearst was the media magnate whose tumultuous life was parodied in the 1941 movie, Citizen Kane. |
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He now says the money originated from Diego Attanasio, a Neapolitan shipping magnate, who was also a client. |
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He made a fortune from trade and joined the gentry, but he was by no means the first upwardly mobile business magnate. |
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Robbed I was, robbed of my rightful position in life of oil magnate and squillionaire at the tender age of five. |
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The local barbecue magnate, a 51-year-old member of the Choctaw and Chippewa tribes, is also a longtime Robbins admirer. |
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A feudal magnate could exercise more power over his tenants than the king who was his overlord. |
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The evidence of Scotland's enduring popularity for the deep-pocketed property magnate is everywhere. |
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Jon Huntsman, the billionaire American chemicals magnate, is in his office surrounded by cuddly toys. |
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Property magnate John Bloor bought the land for redevelopment and picked up the Triumph name as part of the deal. |
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More than 9,000 works of art were donated to the city of Glasgow by the shipping magnate Sir William Burrell and his wife, Constance. |
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A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions. |
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Florida shopping-center magnate Mel Sembler is proud to personify the sort of Republican fat cat that Mitt Romney is depending on. |
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Then she helped press magnate Rupert Murdoch crush organized-labor opposition in his wapping facilities. |
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The Glock family feud gets messier with new court documents alleging that gun magnate Gaston had a detective follow his ex-wife. |
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The Chief-Justice was entertained at dinner one evening by a local magnate. |
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A break is as good as a rest, they say, and with his workload, business magnate Sir Philip Green is entitled to a bit of rest and recuperation. |
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As Rick Perry and Mitt Romney slime each other, the former pizza magnate is delivering on style and substance. |
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In 2006, the Left Front government invited the magnate Ratan Tata to set up his Nano factory at Singur. |
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What brought Stephanie Seymour and her magnate husband, Peter Brant, back together after an ugly divorce battle? |
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He shilled for the shipping magnate in his bid to lead the Liberals. |
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A cynic might question how divorcing the casino magnate Steve Wynn two years earlier and taking half his business make your fortune self-made. |
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He does many things, for not only is Hugh Allan a great shipping magnate, he has coal and iron interests, invests in railways and real estate. |
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What magnate does not hasten to drive the poor man from his tiny field and banish the impoverished from his ancestral home? |
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Support network for Mikhaïl Kassianov, notably oligarch Oleg Deripaska, magnate of Russian aluminium. |
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You see, Ty Warner, the toy magnate of beanie Baby fame, owns a stake in the Four Seasons. |
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This refers with still greater force to people of the rank of the Japanese automobile magnate. |
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Designed by an eccentric Italian fridge magnate and built by BMW, of all companies, the Isetta bubble car deserves its own quirky chapter in the history of post-war motoring. |
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They were spotted by none other than pop magnate Pete Waterman. |
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The baronial castle, built in 1866, was gifted to Ross and Cromarty County Council in 1946 by shipping magnate Sir Daniel Hamilton. |
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The leadership of the club then passed to two prominent businessmen who paved the way for the club's golden era: the financier John Crawford and the shipping magnate Andrew Allan. |
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However the plan was seriously contemplated to the point that in the same year cereal magnate A. K. Kellogg, although known as a capitalist who ran his company with an iron fist, proved to be a pioneer with a radical idea. |
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Narula is the son of billionaire Indian construction magnate Harpinder Singh Narula, and his startup employs 50 people recruited from Google, Facebook, Goldman Sachs and games studios Lionhead and Ubisoft. |
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Utilities magnate and bank president Herbert Holt's home on Stanley Street projected to passers-by the success a poor Irish boy had found in the New World. |
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Finally there is the shipping magnate dwarf. |
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Can you tell that William Macdonald is a tobacco magnate? That he produces the most popular tobacco in the country, yet does not smoke himself and believes tobacco is a filthy habit? |
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Circa 1870, This pair comes from the Chateau de Chatelliers, replica of the Massa Hotel in Paris, property of business magnate and art collector Maurice Fenaille. |
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Renfrew, Ontario, mining and railway construction magnate M. J. O'Brien got out his cheque book in 1909 to assemble the most highly paid hockey team of the time. |
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The names of those who he designed and built for were some of the most famous of the aristocracy of wealth of the East coast, the coal magnate Edward Jules Berwind and different members of the Vanderbilt family. |
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Tyre magnate and club president Piero Pirelli oversaw the construction of San Siro in 1926, but it was not until the 1950s that the Rossoneri began producing results to match that famous stage. |
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He may be the powerful shipping magnate or the pitiful welfare applicant. |
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Monkwearmouth Station in Sunderland was built in neo-Greek style in 1848 for railway magnate and local MP George Hudson. |
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Thegns, the local landowning elites, either fought with the royal housecarls or attached themselves to the forces of an earl or other magnate. |
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One of the passengers was Cornelius Vanderbilt, business magnate and one of the richest people in the United States. |
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Archibald Gracie, shipping magnate and business tycoon in USA, was from Dumfries. |
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Even more gallingly for the billionaire business magnate is a cursory look at the upper end of the Championship table this morning. |
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In 1967 members of the Astor family sold the paper to Canadian publishing magnate Roy Thomson. |
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The revenue from the York and March estates also made him the wealthiest magnate in the land. |
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Gogebic Taconite, a subsidiary of the Cline Group, owned by Florida coal magnate Chris Cline, has its sights set on this iron ore. |
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He lodged near the hospital, at 28 St Thomas's Street in Southwark, with other medical students, including Henry Stephens who became a famous inventor and ink magnate. |
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Also Costa Rican diplomacy neutralized US official support for Walker by taking advantage of the dispute between the magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt and William Walker. |
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Conservative supermarket magnate Ricardo Martinelli was elected to succeed Martin Torrijos with a landslide victory in the May 2009 presidential election. |
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When the family of Charles ceased to produce worthy heirs, the Pope gladly crowned whichever Italian magnate could best protect him from his local enemies. |
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Robert's son, John, Earl of Carrick, had become the foremost Stewart magnate south of the Forth just as Alexander, Earl of Buchan was in the north. |
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Already a great magnate through his wife's property, he had also inherited his father's estates and had been granted much forfeited Lancastrian property. |
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