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Re:Cornell Said Chosen for NYC Engineering Campus by kloncks on Monday December 19, 2011 @03:12PM (#3370943)
Drug dealers!? Please elaborate.
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Re:Cornell Said Chosen for NYC Engineering Campus by Duff on Monday December 19, 2011 @03:27PM (#3370996)
Elihu Yale was a Governor of the British East India Company, which made the King rich by peddling drugs to the Chinese, among other thing.

Don't know about the rest.

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Re:Cornell Said Chosen for NYC Engineering Campus by gcampbell on Monday December 19, 2011 @03:39PM (#3371044)
I thought the preferred pejorative for Leland Stanford was "robber baron".
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Re:Cornell Said Chosen for NYC Engineering Campus by Duff on Monday December 19, 2011 @05:04PM (#3371329)
Or "Captain of Industry" in friendlier contexts.
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Re:Cornell Said Chosen for NYC Engineering Campus by ctkrohn on Monday December 19, 2011 @04:49PM (#3371283)
Duke's name comes from a tobacco businessman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Duke
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