And in the milk biz, Guida and his brother Frank had gone from pickup truck peddling to the undisputed milk magnates of Central Connecticut.
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Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
8 Mar. 2026
During America’s Gilded Age, the era’s industrial titans—steel, oil, and rail magnates—turned to Europe for inspiration for their home decor and architecture.
Today, companies from JPMorganChase to Trader Joe's have their own podcasts, while tech moguls Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff own the Washington Post and Time magazine, respectively.
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Shannon Bond,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2026
It’s been claimed that in the 1930s Hollywood’s Jewish moguls put profits above alienating Adolf Hitler, Germany’s notoriously antisemitic Fuhrer, with anti-Nazi movies.
But all the nattering nabobs of negativism who’d normally have been concentrating on Maura’s catastrophic first term had to devote at least a little attention to recounting one of the Wu Klux Klan’s more embarrassing moments of 2025.
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