Characters as brand standard-bearers were hugely popular in the 1930s through the 1960s as Madison Avenue unleashed a menagerie of huckstering dogs, lions, cats, rabbits and tigers, not to mention product personifications like Chiquita Banana and the Heinz Tomato Man.
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Although other capitalist countries advertise their products, Dorson says, " . . . the intensity of the American ethos in advertising, huckstering, attention-getting, media-manipulating to sell a product, a personality, a town is beyond compare ."
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As the two major beneficiaries of the corrupt system of huckstering campaign cash out of eager-to-please special interests, Lott and Gingrich were being asked to bite the corrupting hand that feeds them soft money and other goodies from the lobbyists'grab bag.
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In 1909, the organization made 700 loans, including 288 for peddling and huckstering, 86 for renting or purchasing horses and wagons, 119 for supply stores or pushcarts, 42 for starting a business, 62 for emigration purposes, 42 for hiring carpenters or painters, 18 for tools for mechanics, and 43 for tuition or other uses.
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John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, recalled Armstrong's legendary humility . " He didn't feel that he should be out huckstering himself, " the former Ohio senator told CNN . " He was a humble person, and that's the way he remained after his lunar flight, as well as before ."
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In the same way association re-establishes, now on a rational basis, no longer mediated by serfdom, overlordship and the silly mysticism of property, the intimate ties of man with the earth, for the earth ceases to be an object of huckstering, and through free labor and free enjoyment becomes once more a true personal property of man.
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Herodotus recounted that, when the Persian king Cyrus the Great asked Croesus, a defeated king who was now his counsellor, what he should do in view of a revolt of the Lydians, Croesus advised him to punish the leader, " but let the Lydians be pardoned; and lay on them this command, that they may not revolt or be dangerous to you; then, I say, and forbid them to possess weapons of war, and command them to wear tunics under their cloaks and buskins on their feet, and to teach their sons lyre-playing and song and dance and huckstering.
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WP has to be fair to all because it is an online ENCYCLOPEDIA and it is not a place to wage WP : WAR . Yes, editing WP takes skill and it is a tough job, but to take out the hatched and try to proverbially " kill off " your opponent rather than engaging in proper intellectual debate and work on the technical and policy aspects of WP editing is disgusting to watch, and soon there will only be anti-Israel editors running what is already a pretty well-known debacle and degradation as more and more ( like a doomed sinking Titanic of verbal huckstering ) WP takes on the default role as a front for the delegitimization of the Israeli POV ( yes it's a POV, just as the PLO has POV and Hamas has a POV ).
