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Word: haines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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Commodore Vanderbilt was a rowdy illiterate who wore a fur coat winter and summer and bellowed, "What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?" Big Jim Fisk was an ebullient bluffer who wore velvet vests and many rings, was shot to death by his mistress' lover. Dapper Jay Gould was a consumptive neurotic who was once led by a doctor from a board of directors' meeting in raving hysteria. These great robber barons all had the stuff of celebrity, and all of them have already been documented to death. But not Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Manipulator of Manipulators | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

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