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Berlin and Cölln came together in 1307 in order to lead the Brandenburg region’s defenses and defeat the robber barons who were terrorizing merchants and local peasants.
The NYT , in its off-lead on the crisis, continues to paint the picture of Russia's financial barons sinking economic reform--with its aims of collecting back taxes and allowing money-losing concerns to go under--and reasserting their power.
The union's local bosses were no better: The "barons" padded their payrolls with family members, paid themselves enormous salaries (as much as $500,000 a year), took bribes from employers in exchange for sweetheart contracts, siphoned pension funds into mob-run operations, and generally screwed their rank and file.
Hanna elected William McKinley president in 1896 by marshalling the wealth of the robber barons on his behalf.
The popular portrayal of bloated plutocrats has changed enormously in the last 150 years, devolving from the 19 th century's ferocious robber barons, to that guy on the Monopoly box who was always chasing his secretary around his desk in New Yorker cartoons, to the addled and ineffectual potbellies of Depression-era screwball comedy.