We can only wonder where Joe Edmiston, the famed wheeler-dealer who runs the Santa Monica Conservancy as if he were the Wild West's last great
land baron, was when this rip-off occurred.
An adobe built about 1844 and turned into a gracious Monterey-style mansion on 1,100 acres (currently referred to as the Platt Ranch subdivision) by Valley
land baron Miguel Leonis about 1880, it is one of the few historical buildings still standing in the area.
Once owned by 19th century
land baron Henry Cowell, Gray Whale Ranch includes redwood forests, oak woodlands, meadows and sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean.
Mao was especially careful to target
land barons, warlords and the Japanese, and not the ordinary people, who were thought of as the 'sea' in which the communists 'swam like fish'.
The Pastoral Land Commission, an organization that Stang worked with closely, was founded by the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops in 1975 to advocate for landless peasants against corporate and wealthy
land barons.
The Spaniards and their descendants, cowboys,
land barons, and the federal government are accounted for as well.
Synopsis: Set in the California heartland in 1932, at a migrant labor camp whose very name means forgotten, "Camp Olvido" is the story of how a child's sudden illness leads to tensions between workers wishing to break camp and the
land barons enforcing their contracts.
Seavey Loop-Mount Pisgah is the most nourishing, most alive oasis in central Lane County - but when industrialists, speculators and
land barons look at that lush and productive area, all they see is a drain that can be turned into a sewer.
A select collection, comprising
land barons, waderas, landed pirs, sardars, chieftains, robber barons and moneyed upstarts, hold the entire system in its tight grab and keep it within its own limited circle, leaving no outlet to outsiders to intrude and be accepted.
Because it is a means of wealth accumulation, a leisure for the
land barons.
The state has 425 redevelopment agencies (RDAS), urban renewal fiefdoms empowered by eminent domain and catering to political hacks, connected
land barons, community organizers, and Chamber of Commerce flunkies.
The Jews of Finchley were "her people," Thatcher used to saycertainly much more so than the wealthy
land barons that dominated her party.
