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E. H. Harriman   /i eɪtʃ hˈɛrɪmən/   Listen
E. H. Harriman

noun
1.
United States railway tycoon (1848-1909).  Synonyms: Edward Henry Harriman, Harriman.






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"E. H. Harriman" Quotes from Famous Books



... darling of the financial gods. The late J. P. Morgan, for example, regarded the United States Steel Corporation as his prize performance and talked about it just like a doting father speaks of a successful son. The Union Pacific System was the apple of E. H. Harriman's eye, and the New York Central was a Vanderbilt fetish for decades. So with Ryan and the Congo. Other powerful Americans have become associated with him, as you will see later on, but it was the tall, alert, clear-eyed Virginian, who rose from penniless clerk to be a Wall Street king, ...
— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson



Words linked to "E. H. Harriman" :   man of affairs, businessman, Harriman



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