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by Duff 5293 days ago
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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I thought the preferred pejorative for Leland Stanford was "robber baron".
Or "Captain of Industry" in friendlier contexts.