Jay Gould? John Livingston? Delmore Schwartz? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: In the 19th-century a lesson of powerful industrialists were accused of unethical business practices, and the critical epithet “robber baron” appeared in journals and newspapers. The following incendiary comment has been attributed to the wealthy railroad magnate Jay Gould: I can hire one half of […]
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