It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The ex-Dundee football director has worked with train robber Ronnie Biggs and Saddam Hussein's legal team.
The so-called robber barons were unapologetically raking in a huge percentage of the national wealth.
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The huge integrated corporations of the Robber Barons called for armies of paper wranglers.
You would not allow a bank robber to continue robbing a bank for 18 months.
Stout and bearded, he could be typecast, like Gould, Morgan, and Vanderbilt, as a robber baron.
The Irish Independent, for example, claims that the salon owner kicked the robber in the privates.
For a moment the two men grappled, until the robber broke free, stepped back, and fired.
Not to be outdone, retired police officer Roosevelt Snipes bragged of nabbing a legendary robber.
The robber rolled the motorcycle forward twenty feet, grunting, and again tried to start it.
Officer Pichardo struggled with the robber and was shot in the right thigh, Mr Kelly said.
Dr Hamlen offers the analogy of a bank robber with an unlimited supply of ski masks.
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Once lauded as figures to be emulated, men like Rockefeller and Carnegie are now only robber barons.
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By any measure, the new billionaires of Silicon Valley and Wall Street pale alongside the robber barons.
In 1934, the U.S. bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson was killed near Barrington, Illinois, by FBI agents.
At its peak, the excess profits tax ran to 90% for the Robber Barons who didn't complain too vociferously.
Two more men have been arrested after an armed robber was chased from a Dorset bank by a passer-by.
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The family office idea has been around since the 19th-century robber baron days.
Police are hunting a would-be robber who targeted a man who had deposited money in a bank's night safe.
They also called him "The Whiskey Robber, " because he'd down shot after shot of Johnnie Walker before his raids.
To identify a bank robber, prosecutors in Connecticut obtained records for 169 phones in 2009 without a search warrant.
Armed police, a helicopter and dog units assisted in pursuit of the robber.
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Every bank robber taken down by the cops is replaced by someone else.
Last year, a suspected armed robber tried to escape by leaping into the gorilla pen at the Johannesburg Zoo.
Police said the robber, who was carrying a gun, told Mr Garbutt "we've got your wife" before demanding cash.
Regardless, it's reasonable that a robber should have an expectation of death if he or she breaks into someone's home.
What took the Whiskey Robber down was the frequency of his heists--inevitably, one would go wrong, and one finally did.
On top of the industrial backbone created during the Robber Baron era, they manufactured a new normal for the masses.
The House of Lords is a living testament to royal bastardy, robber baronry, social exclusion, political patronage and downright cronyism.
He wants Romina back, but he has no money, so he becomes a bank robber to support her and the child.
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