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From a 1924 radio broadcast:

“Those of you who were brought up on the Bible will recall
the account of Joseph’s very remarkable business career. It tells
how he left his country under difficulties, and, coming into a
strange country, he rose, through his diligence, to become the
principal person in the state, second only to the King.

“Now, my friends, the Biblical narrative brings us to that
point—the point where Joseph had made a great success and
was widely advertised throughout the country; it brings us
up to the climax of his career and then it hands us an awful
jolt. Without any words of preparation or explanation, it says
bluntly:

“‘And the King died, and there arose a new King in Egypt
which knew not Joseph.’

“Now, that sentence is one of the most staggering lines which
has ever been written in a business biography. Here was a
man so famous that everybody knew him, and presto, a few
people die, a few new ones are born, and nobody knows him.
The tide of human life has moved on. . . .

“Now, my friends, let us apply that story to modern business.
An hour ago there were in this country sick, in bed, several
thousand old folks. It is perhaps indelicate for me to refer to
that fact, but it is a fact: In this single hour which has just
passed, those old folks have died, and all the goodwill which
advertising has built up in their minds has died with them—all
the investment made by that past advertising has gone on
into another world where the products are not for sale.

“And in this same hour another thing—equally staggering—
has happened. There have been born into this country several
thousand lusty boys and girls to whom advertised products