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Drug dealers!? Please elaborate.

• Duff 15y 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.
  • gcampbell 15y ago
    I thought the preferred pejorative for Leland Stanford was "robber baron".
    • Duff 15y ago
      Or "Captain of Industry" in friendlier contexts.
• ctkrohn 15y ago
  Duke's name comes from a tobacco businessman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Duke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Duke