Surname on a financial weekly

Usage examples of barron.

As the boys watched, Uncle Titus lifted the machine and carried it towards the other things that Charles Barron had purchased that day.

Mr Barron took the lids off and looked at the grates to make sure they were intact, and he's buying all the stovepipe we have on hand.

Mrs Barron seems nice enough, but Mr Barron is sure that either everyone is trying to cheat him or no one knows his own business.

There was an article about a man named Barron in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago.

At the far side of the yard, Charles Barron had pushed aside a splintery plank so that he could examine a rusted lawn chair.

Mr Barron looked around and scowled as he approached, but Jupe pretended not to notice.

His father owned Barron International, the company that makes tractors and farm machinery.

The Barrons owned Barronsgate, too--the town near Milwaukee where Charles Barron was born.

But then the workers at Barron International went on strike for shorter hours and more money.

At different times Barron has owned newspapers and a chain of radio stations and some banks, and he has always gotten tangled up in government regulations or labour troubles or lawsuits.

You can do that sort of thing when you've got heaps of money, and Mr Barron sure does have heaps.

I was foreman at the Armstrong Ranch near Austin, Texas, until Mr Barron came to visit there last year and hired me away.

Mrs Barron stepped into the kitchen and smiled at Jupiter, Pete, and Bob.

Mrs Barron smiled again, and Jupe looked questioningly at Bob and then at Pete.

Mrs Barron opened the door for them and then led them into a parlour that was stiffly formal, with settees and chairs upholstered in velvet.