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When the great expropriator, President L�zaro C�rdenas, began casting covetous eyes at some of Jenkins' sugar land in the late 1930s, Jenkins shrewdly gave the land to C�rdenas as a gift.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the logical and inevitable conclusion of the thought I have developed to-day is, that we are bound to recognize the indefeasible worth latent even in the cruel exploiter and the merciless expropriator.

From The Essentials of Spirituality by Adler, Felix

To destroy tribal custom by introducing conceptions of individual property, the free disposal of land, and the free purchase of gin may be the handiest method for the expropriator.

From Liberalism by Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny)

Its general analogy with our Shroud-theft does not admit of doubt, though the proceedings of the expropriator of wax lights are more easily accounted for than are those of the Shroud-thief.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn